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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. 100
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- States should adopt, review and, where necessary, strengthen national laws and regulations and consider establishing, regularly reviewing and evaluating national fair recruitment commitments and policies, with the participation of employers’ and workers’ organizations.
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- 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
- All
- 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. 98f
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- [States should:] Encourage knowledge-sharing activities with multi-stakeholder initiatives through, inter alia, the establishment of platforms for the exchange of experiences, lessons learned and good practices on voluntary standards that can help in strengthening national and local strategies to enforce and monitor labour standards.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- 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. 84
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- When performing an audit, assurance providers and auditing companies should ensure that sufficient time is allocated to interviews with workers and worker representatives, that gender concerns are appropriately addressed and that sufficient resources are allocated to engaging interpreters to support auditors when necessary.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The issue of trafficking in persons for the removal of organs 2013, para. 57
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- It is one thing to recognize a right to a remedy and quite another to ensure access to that right. The very low rate of victim identification in cases of trafficking in persons for the removal of organs means that the overwhelming number of persons who have suffered this harm will never be able to gain access to their legal entitlement to a remedy. The first and primary responsibility of States must therefore be to work towards ensuring that victims of trafficking in persons for the removal of organs are swiftly and accurately identified. Even for victims who are identified as such, however, obstacles to access to remedies are likely to be formidable. For example, many victims who have travelled to another country for surgery will not be identified until after they have returned, rendering it extremely difficult to secure restitution or compensation from or through the country in which the exploitation occurred. Such difficulties can be compounded by the fact that most victims are disempowered through poverty and illiteracy. Measures such as providing access to information and legal assistance, in addition to cross-border cooperation in relation to legal processes, will be crucial to making effective the right to a remedy for victims 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)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- 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. 48
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- It should also be acknowledged, however, that there are limits to the services that victim support agencies may be able to provide. States remain responsible for ensuring the well-being of victims, and it is important that they are cognizant of the mandates, resources and capacity of non-governmental organizations and victim service providers to administer necessary assistance to victims.
- 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
- All
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The right to an effective remedy for trafficked persons 2011, para. 73
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- States should develop guidelines on the appropriate form, content and language of the information to be provided to trafficked persons and ensure that they properly apply the guidelines. In such guidelines, States should ensure that information is easily accessible in a variety of forms and available in a language that trafficked persons understand, not only from a linguistic perspective but also cultural and socio-economic perspectives.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Prevention of trafficking in persons 2010, para. 83
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- States must demonstrate serious commitment and political will as part of the effort to regulate businesses, in particular recruitment and tourism agencies and the entertainment and sex industries. In that regard, public officials who collude with traffickers should be equally penalized.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Prevention of trafficking in persons 2010, para. 81
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- States should actively involve trafficked persons in designing, implementing and monitoring measures to prevent trafficking in persons. States should increase transparency in policymaking processes and make relevant information available to trafficked persons to facilitate their participation. States should institutionalize the participation of trafficked persons by creating specific channels for such participation within the policymaking process.
- 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
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Prevention of trafficking in persons 2010, para. 77
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- States should recognize the power of the media in raising public awareness about risks associated with trafficking. In cooperation with civil society organizations, States should ensure that the media are provided with training so that they do not stigmatize trafficked persons and so that they disseminate accurate information about the risks of trafficking in persons.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Prevention of trafficking in persons 2010, para. 74
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- States should ensure that awareness-raising campaigns are based on accurate information as well as a baseline analysis of what the target audience does or does not know. Information should be easily accessible, and appropriate channels of communication should be used to reach a target audience.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Prevention of trafficking in persons 2010, para. 65
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- States are urged to address underlying factors, such as poverty, high unemployment rate, lack of human security and gender-based discrimination that increase people's vulnerability to trafficking by respecting, protecting and promoting their human rights in a comprehensive and holistic manner. States should combine different interventions so that the multiple violations of human rights that generate conditions of vulnerability to trafficking are addressed as a whole.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Movement
- Poverty
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- 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. 66p
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- [Criteria and indicators should be strengthened in accordance with the benchmarks and indicators for ensuring trafficking-free supply chains proposed by the Special Rapporteur (A/HRC/23/48/Add.4, appendix I) and should include at a minimum the following indicators:] Workers are not physically confined to the workplace and do not face restrictions, including psychological intimidation and/or verbal threats, on their freedom of movement outside working hours and in related premises, such as dormitories or residences;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- 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. 66a
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- [Criteria and indicators should be strengthened in accordance with the benchmarks and indicators for ensuring trafficking-free supply chains proposed by the Special Rapporteur (A/HRC/23/48/Add.4, appendix I) and should include at a minimum the following indicators:] All workers have the freedom to terminate employment at any time, without penalty, by means of reasonable notice, in accordance with national law or collective agreement;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- 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. 26
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- Responding to a lack of State regulation and poor enforcement of international standards, as well as to consumer demand for greater levels of transparency and compliance with those standards, businesses have also tried to address these issues through a commitment to voluntary standards and assurance programmes, by establishing their own programmes or by engaging with a multi-stakeholder initiative. How trafficking in persons is addressed by such initiatives is the focus of the present report.
- 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
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The issue of human trafficking in supply chains 2012, para. 50f
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- [Furthermore, businesses should:] Establish effective, credible and confidential grievance mechanisms to enable workers to voice concerns and promote an institutionalized mechanism for resolving workplace conflict;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
- 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. 106
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- States should ensure workers have access to free, comprehensive and accurate information regarding their rights and the conditions of their recruitment and employment.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The issue of human trafficking in supply chains 2012, para. 39
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- As the bottom line is the primary interest of businesses, other stakeholders, most notably consumers, can exert significant influence over corporate conduct. There is no doubt that consumers are increasingly conscious of how their everyday products are produced and take into consideration a company's commitment to social issues in deciding where to shop. Through ethical consumerism, consumers could play an instrumental role in encouraging companies to take part in efforts to combat trafficking.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Prevention of trafficking in persons 2010, para. 62
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- Furthermore, in conjunction with monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of prevention programmes, it is important to assess any unintended negative impact on the human rights of all persons, especially trafficked persons. As discussed above, some measures designed to prevent trafficking, although well-intended, may cause more harm to the human rights of trafficked persons than good. In order to ensure the primacy of the human rights of trafficked persons, it is essential that the impact of prevention measures be closely monitored and assessed on a regular basis.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2010
- 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. 66m
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- [Criteria and indicators should be strengthened in accordance with the benchmarks and indicators for ensuring trafficking-free supply chains proposed by the Special Rapporteur (A/HRC/23/48/Add.4, appendix I) and should include at a minimum the following indicators:] Workers are not compelled to make use of stores or services operated in connection with an undertaking. Where access to other stores or services is not possible, employers ensure that goods and services are sold or provided at fair and reasonable prices, without the aim of indebting or otherwise coercing the workers concerned;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Trafficking in persons in conflict and post-conflict situations 2016, para. 56a
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- [Rights of victims of trafficking in armed conflict. Victims of trafficking are entitled to the same rights, due diligence protection and prevention against trafficking in persons by States whether in times of conflict or otherwise. These rights include:] Right to be identified. The recommended principles and guidelines on human rights and human trafficking and the commentary to the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking highlight that failure to correctly identify a trafficked person, or to identify her or him at all, will directly affect the ability of that person to access the rights to which she or he is entitled. States are therefore required to take positive steps to identify victims of trafficking accurately and in a timely manner and to ensure that they are referred to appropriate services. During situations of conflict, the risk of identification failures is very high;
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Due diligence and trafficking in persons 2015, para. 35
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- The right to an effective remedy for victims of trafficking in persons should be interpreted and applied without discrimination, including to non-citizens. A victim-centred and human rights-based approach to remedies centres the human rights of trafficked persons in all efforts to prevent and combat trafficking and to protect, assist and provide redress to victims. This includes ensuring that anti-trafficking measures do not adversely impact the human rights of victims of trafficking in persons and non-conditionality of victims' access to remedies, meaning that remedies, including assistance and protection, must not be dependent on the victim's willingness to cooperate with authorities. For example, in Moldova the Government provides a minimum assistance package that includes physical, psychological and social recovery measures, where access to "assistance should not be dependent on the victim's willingness to participate in the prosecution of traffickers."
- 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
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2015
- 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. 41
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- As stated in the Trafficking in Persons Protocol, factors that make people vulnerable to trafficking and demand must be addressed in the strategies to prevent trafficking. This is further reinforced by the Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking. Principles 4 and 5 and guideline 7 provide that strategies to prevent trafficking shall address demand as a root cause and States shall ensure that their interventions address the factors that increase vulnerability to trafficking, including inequality, poverty and all forms of discrimination. States may be held legally responsible for their failure to take adequate measures to prevent trafficking in persons, including measures to discourage demand. States in which exploitation of persons occurs or is alleged to occur have a particular responsibility to take action to discourage demand.
- 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
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The right to an effective remedy for trafficked persons 2011, para. 33
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- Trafficked persons may also have options of claiming compensation based on labour law violations, such as discrimination, breach of national minimum wage, and unreasonable overtime. While there are some promising practices, the possibility for trafficked persons to obtain compensation through labour proceedings may be restricted by a number of eligibility criteria in practice. In some countries, labour proceedings are not available for trafficked persons engaging in sexual services, as the provision of sexual services itself is illegal and thus not a recognized form of employment to which labour protection applies. Trafficked persons with irregular immigration status may be also excluded from the use of labour proceedings to seek compensation.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
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