A/HRC/14/32 held in Rome. Thereafter, from 14 to 15 September, she attended an International Conference on “Prevention of Modern Slavery” in Vienna, organized by OSCE. 7. On 9 October 2009, the Special Rapporteur participated in the launch of the International Framework for Action to Implement the Trafficking Protocol in New York, at the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly. From 19 to 20 October, she participated in the EU Ministerial Conference “Towards EU Action against Trafficking in Human Beings” in Brussels, where she participated as a panellist for the session on “Partnerships to Protect Children from Trafficking in Human Beings”. 8. On 22 October 2009, she took part in the special event “Giving Voice to the Victims and Survivors of Human Trafficking”, together with the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Secretary-General and victims of trafficking from different regions of the world. On 23 October, she presented her report, which provides an analysis of the issue of the identification, protection and assistance to victims of trafficking, to the General Assembly. 9. On 2 November 2009, she delivered a keynote address at the Fourth Annual Symposium on “Trafficking in persons as a form of violence against women” organized by the Protection Project, at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at the Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC. 10. From 8 to 10 December 2009, she participated in the international summit “The courage to lead: a human rights summit for women leaders” in Geneva, where she acted as a panellist and joined the mentoring programme for young women leaders. 11. On 18 January 2010, the Special Rapporteur held consultations in Bangkok with intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations working on human trafficking in the region. From 20 to 22 January, she attended the Senior Officials Meeting of the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative against Trafficking (COMMIT) in Bagan, Myanmar. 12. Finally, from 16 to 19 February 2010, she delivered a keynote address at a GenderBased Violence and Trafficking in Persons workshop organized by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington, addressed to United States of America Government representatives. III. Regional and subregional cooperation in promoting a human rights-based approach to combating trafficking in persons A. Framework for international cooperation in combating trafficking in persons 13. In 2000, the General Assembly adopted the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo Protocol), an international legal instrument that specifically addresses trafficking in persons. It puts cooperation at the centre of the anti-trafficking response, by stating in article 2 that the purposes of the Protocol are to prevent and combat trafficking in persons, to protect and assist the victims, and to promote cooperation in order to meet these goals. 14. Among the core human rights instruments, the Convention on the Rights of the Child promotes the establishment of cooperation mechanism in this field, by calling upon States parties to take all appropriate national, bilateral and multilateral measures to prevent the abduction of, the sale of or traffic in children for any purpose or in any form (art. 35). 4 GE.10-13211