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Response of La Strada International to the Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Sigma Huda

Document number
2041
Date
2006
Title
Response of La Strada International to the Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Sigma Huda
Author/publisher
La Strada International
Availability
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Document type(s)
LSI publication,
Keywords
Palermo protocol; Definition of (trafficking), Root Causes, Risk Groups, Vulnerability, Pull factors, Push factors, Sending/Receiving countries, Prostitution; Sex work; Clients, Abolitionism; New Abolitionism; Prohibitionism; Regulationism, “Integration of the Human Rights of Women and the Gender Perspective” E/CN.4/2006/62, 20 February 2006 62nd Session of the Commission on Human Rights
Summary


LSI fully supports the statement of the Special Rapporteur that "the human rights of victims of trafficking should be at the centre of all efforts to combat trafficking and protect, assist and provide redress to victims of trafficking." However, LSI shares a number of concerns about the Report which undermines the validity of the conclusions and recommendations. These concerns can be categorised in the following themes: 1. Methodology 2. Human Rights Framework 3. Excluding other sectors into which people are trafficked 4. Relationship between ‘demand', trafficking and criminalisation of the purchase of sexual services 5. Conflation of prostitution with trafficking and the Palermo Protocol

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