Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, July 2013
- Document number
- 3006
- Date
- 2013
- Title
- Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, July 2013
- Author/publisher
- United Nations
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Guidelines/Recommendations, International Law, Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- human rights, human trafficking, slavery, United Nations, debt bondage, servile marriage, child slavery, domestic servitude, forced labour
- Summary
- The Special Rapporteur provides an overview of her activities and focuses her thematic report on challenges and lessons learned in combating slavery. Based on the Special Rapporteur’s observations from the numerous activities carried out while performing her mandate, the Special Rapporteur highlights various challenges that need to be addressed in order to combat contemporary forms of slavery. The Special Rapporteur also puts forward recommendations for Governments, United Nations agencies and civil society organizations to tackle these challenges.
The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 15/2 by the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, Gulnara Shahinian. In chapter II, the Special Rapporteur summarizes her activities since her previous report to the Council, and in chapters III–VII she discusses and makes recommendations on combating contemporary forms of slavery.