A/HRC/11/37
5.
Invites Governments to include information on measures and best practices to
combat trafficking in persons, especially women and children, in their national reports
submitted for the universal periodic review;
6.
Encourages Governments to take into account, as a useful tool to integrate a
human rights-based approach, the Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human
Rights and Human Trafficking (E/2002/68/Add.1) developed by the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, including, as appropriate, in the
formulation, review and implementation of legislation, policies and programmes aimed at
preventing and eradicating trafficking in persons, especially women and children, and
providing assistance to victims;
7.
Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner to provide or to support,
within existing resources, training at the national level for all stakeholders on the
integration of a human rights approach into the prevention and response to trafficking in
persons, including the identification and treatment of victims with full respect for their
human rights;
8.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to enhance its efforts within
the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking to promote and integrate a human
rights-based approach into efforts to combat human trafficking;
9.
Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to organize, within
existing resources, and in close coordination with the Special Rapporteur, a two-day
seminar aimed at identifying opportunities and challenges in the development of rightsbased responses to trafficking in persons with a view to acknowledging emerging good
practices and further promoting the practical application of the Recommended Principles
and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking, with the participation of
Governments, the Special Rapporteur and other relevant special procedures, treaty bodies,
United Nations specialized agencies and programmes, regional, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, national human rights institutions, academics, medical experts
and representatives of victims, and to submit a report on the proceedings of the seminar to
the Council;
10.
Further requests the Office of the High Commissioner to disseminate the
Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking, and to
collect the views of stakeholders, including Governments, observers of the United Nations,
relevant United Nations bodies, specialized agencies and programmes, regional bodies,
non-governmental organizations and national human rights institutions, on the
Recommended Principles and Guidelines, as well as on experiences and emerging good
practices while applying them, and to make available to the Council a compilation of these
views as an addendum to the above-mentioned report;
11.
Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Office of the High
Commissioner with sufficient resources to fulfil its mandate in relation to combating
trafficking in persons, especially women and children;
12.
Decides to continue consideration of this matter under the same agenda item
according to its annual programme of work.
27th meeting
17 June 2009
[Adopted without a vote. See part II, chap. III.]
GE.09-16766
13
Select target paragraph3
Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents