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The issue of trafficking in persons for the removal of organs 2013, para. 67
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- Below, the Special Rapporteur offers recommendations to States, medical and transplantation professionals and the international community.
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- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Integration of a human rights-based approach in measures to discourage the demand that fosters all forms of exploitation of persons, especially women and children, and which leads to human trafficking 2013, para. 85b
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- [Taking in account States' obligations under international human rights law, the Special Rapporteur would like to offer a set of recommendations which may serve as a basis for human rights-based measures to discourage the demand that fosters or leads to trafficking in persons:] States have a responsibility to protect against human rights abuses (including trafficking in persons and exploitation of persons) by third parties, including business enterprises and criminal associations, through appropriate policies, regulation and adjudication. States should set out clearly the expectation that all business enterprises domiciled in their territory and/or jurisdiction will respect human rights throughout their operations, both at home and abroad, and take appropriate action to stop trafficking in persons or the exploitation of persons from occurring, regardless of the size, sector, operational context, ownership and structure of the business enterprise;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 104
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- States should ensure that legislation covering recruitment activities clearly prohibits the charging of recruitment fees and related costs to workers and jobseekers.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 101
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- States should ensure that relevant legislation and regulations cover all aspects and stages of the recruitment process, and that they apply to all workers, especially those in a vulnerable situation, and for all types of jobs.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 98d
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- [States should:] Develop and release guidance materials prior to the entry into force of the legislation to support companies in understanding the requirements;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 98c
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- [States should:] Make publicly available the lists of companies that are subject to legislation on transparency;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 98b
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- [States should:] Establish sanction mechanisms for companies that fail to fulfil their obligations, and equip law enforcement agencies with the resources necessary to follow up on reports of lack of compliance;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 98a
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- [States should:] Adopt effective legislation requiring transparency in supply chains, human rights due diligence throughout supply chains, public reporting and disclosure by businesses, as well as measures relating to procurement practices, and guarantee the implementation of such legislation;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 92
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- Companies should consider publicly disclosing the names of their suppliers, as well as policies and measures implemented to ensure the compliance of suppliers to the company policy, with reference to, inter alia, cases of non-compliance and corrective action taken.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 86
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- Assurance providers and auditing companies should supplement information obtained through worker interviews and document reviews with alternative sources of information, including from trade unions and civil society stakeholders who are active in the sector and region.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 85
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- In the event that the audited company uses labour recruiters, a specialized audit protocol should be in place to assess the risks in their recruitment practices.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 80
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- Multi-stakeholder initiatives should consider engaging with auditors and other monitoring mechanisms when designing and establishing auditing protocols and monitoring modalities to ensure that they are effective for identifying risk indicators in practice.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 72
- Paragraph text
- Multi-stakeholder initiatives should cooperate with State authorities by sharing lessons learned and experiences in standards implementation, to analyse gaps in regulations and State policy regarding the elimination of trafficking in persons and promote the adoption of a relevant legal framework and effective law enforcement measures.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 70
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- Multi-stakeholder initiatives should consider establishing a platform with all relevant stakeholders at the local level to discuss and coordinate measures to implement the standards, challenges in the implementation and solutions.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Strengthening voluntary standards for businesses on preventing and combating trafficking in persons and labour exploitation, especially in supply chains 2017, para. 68
- Paragraph text
- Multi-stakeholder initiatives should ensure that the criteria and indicators used to determine compliance with each standard are adapted effectively to the specific sector and activity the initiative covers.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Trafficking in persons in conflict and post-conflict situations 2016, para. 70d
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- [States contributing personnel to peacekeeping operations should:] Disclose publicly information on disciplinary and administrative procedures taken by contributing countries in relation to alleged perpetrators within their troops;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Trafficking in persons in conflict and post-conflict situations 2016, para. 75d
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- [States contributing personnel to peacekeeping operations should:] Disclose information publicly on disciplinary and administrative procedures taken by contributing countries in relation to alleged perpetrators within their national troops;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Due diligence and trafficking in persons 2015, para. 54
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- Non-State actors, such as business enterprises, themselves have a role in the due diligence framework, including through a voluntary "human rights due diligence process" pursuant to the soft law "responsibility to respect" framework that applies for corporations or through international human rights obligations under certain circumstances.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Due diligence and trafficking in persons 2015, para. 53
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- In addition to the obligations of due diligence of individual States when they participate in inter-State institutions such as the international financial institutions, inter-State organizations should also embed due diligence in their governance activities, including in procurement practices and particularly in post-conflict situations.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The issue of trafficking in persons for the removal of organs 2013, para. 99
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- The international human rights system, including the treaty bodies, should be encouraged to take up the issue of trafficking in persons for the removal of organs where this is warranted. In this regard, it is important to ensure that the laws, policies and practices of countries of demand and of countries of supply are subject to examination from the perspective of international human rights laws.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The issue of trafficking in persons for the removal of organs 2013, para. 94
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- States should continue to reject all forms and avenues of commercialization of transplantation as a means of addressing demand-fuelled exploitation on the grounds of human rights concerns, including threats to basic principles of equality and non-discrimination.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The issue of trafficking in persons for the removal of organs 2013, para. 63
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- A survey of the legal and policy environment surrounding trafficking in persons for the removal of organs confirms that a lack of clarity around some key questions is hampering progress in efforts to combat this particularly egregious human rights violation. Most significantly, the Special Rapporteur has concluded that the distinction between trafficking in persons for removal of organs and trafficking in organs is generally unhelpful. Certainly, there is an urgent need to ensure that laws on trafficking in persons for the removal of organs are supplemented by the effective criminalization of all related offences that may be implicated in such cases but that may not readily or easily fall within the three-element umbrella definition of trafficking in persons. To that extent, the draft Council of Europe convention against trafficking in human organs represents a potentially important contribution to fleshing out the legal framework around trafficking in persons for the removal of organs and ensuring that all persons complicit in such offences do not escape liability. Case-based experience confirms, however, that the trade in organs is inextricably linked to actions against individuals aimed at their exploitation. There lies great danger in removing the individual victim from this picture by separating out the concept of trafficking in organs from the concept of trafficking in persons for the removal of organs.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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A human rights-based approach to the administration of criminal justice in cases of trafficking in persons 2012, para. 96
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- Training is an important component of anti-trafficking strategies, and the development of specialized anti-trafficking units may assist States to strengthen capacity to investigate and prosecute trafficking. Such units must be bound by clear mandates to address anti-trafficking matters, and be adequately equipped and funded.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The issue of human trafficking in supply chains 2012, para. 50b
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- [Furthermore, businesses should:] Conduct a risk assessment for their entire production chain and, on that basis, develop and adopt high-level, company-wide policies or strategies to eliminate risks of human trafficking in their supply chains that should apply to all enterprises in a company's product or supply chain and should be integrated into contracts and agreements with suppliers and business partners;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The issue of human trafficking in supply chains 2012, para. 50a
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- [Furthermore, businesses should:] Become signatories to the Global Compact and the Athens Ethical Principles, which underscore the importance of respect for human rights by businesses and their participation in efforts to combat the menace of human trafficking in all its forms, especially in the production chain, in addition to committing themselves to abiding by the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and other similar instruments;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The issue of human trafficking in supply chains 2012, para. 49i
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- [On the basis of these conclusions, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Promote public-private partnerships and engage the business community and civil society in developing and implementing sustainable initiatives to prevent and combat human trafficking in supply chains, in addition to actively involving trafficked persons in designing, implementing and monitoring such initiatives.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
The issue of human trafficking in supply chains 2012, para. 49g
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- [On the basis of these conclusions, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Consider adopting laws that facilitate consumer pressure by requiring public disclosure of information about measures that companies have taken to prevent and combat human trafficking in supply chains;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
The issue of human trafficking in supply chains 2012, para. 49e
- Paragraph text
- [On the basis of these conclusions, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Consider strengthening businesses' compliance with laws by adopting initiatives that allow the naming and shaming of those businesses that engage in trafficking and applying financial penalties to such businesses;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
The issue of human trafficking in supply chains 2012, para. 49b
- Paragraph text
- [On the basis of these conclusions, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Ensure the effective enforcement of relevant laws by, among other things, intensifying capacity-building and training for all relevant stakeholders, including the police, immigration authorities, border patrol officials, labour inspectors, judges and prosecutors;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
The right to an effective remedy for trafficked persons 2011, para. 38
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- Where State-funded compensation schemes for victims of crime exist, States should abolish eligibility criteria that have the effect of preventing trafficked persons from seeking compensation, such as nationality and long-term residence requirements.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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