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Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Aspects of the Victims of Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children

Document number
1008
Date
2006
Title
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Aspects of the Victims of Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children
Author/publisher
Sigma Huda, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Aspects of the Victims of Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
United Nations, Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), E/CN.4/2006/62 20 February 2006, Sixty-second session, Item 12 of the provisional agenda, Prostitution, Abolitionism, Prohibitionism, Sex work, Sexual exploitation, Clients, Demand, Sexual exploitation,
Summary
This report is submitted in accordance with Commission on Human Rights decision 2004/110. It covers the period January-December 2005. Section I outlines the Special Rapporteur’s activities during this reporting period. Section II is devoted to a thematic study on the relationship between trafficking and the demand for commercial sexual exploitation. Section III contains the Special Rapporteur’s conclusions and recommendations. Section II of the report first seeks to clarify the definition of trafficking adopted in the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (hereinafter referred to as the Protocol). The purpose of this section is to foster the consensus reached through the negotiation process surrounding the drafting of the Protocol, and to provide a legal interpretation of the Protocol definition. Second, the report addresses the concept of demand, explaining what is meant by this term, and discussing various factors that are relevant to a proper understanding of demand. Third, the report highlights a variety of methods employed throughout the world by States, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations in order to target the demand side of trafficking.
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