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and other actors but also to the United Nations, as their reports also relate to various aspects
of the work of the United Nations.
6.
Several reports related to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
They included the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of
the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes,
the Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child
prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material, the Special
Rapporteur on the right to development, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of
association and of peaceful assembly and the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a
means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to selfdetermination.
7.
Mandate holders also made concrete recommendations on how to enhance the
preventive approach of the United Nations by, for example, producing the joint study on
transitional justice and the prevention of atrocities referred to in paragraph 15.
8.
Several reports related to migration issues. Those reports included those of the
Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity, the Special Rapporteur on
trafficking in persons, especially women and children, the Special Rapporteur on
contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,
the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable
standard of physical and mental health and the Special Rapporteur on torture and other
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. The focus of the reports of the
Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants was on returns and reintegration and
effective access to justice.
9.
Economic issues were examined in such reports as that of the Special Rapporteur on
contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, which related to the
impact of slavery and servitude on marginalized migrant women workers in the global
domestic economy. The reports of the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and
other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human
rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights, related, for their part, to the
development of guiding principles for assessing the human rights impact of economic
reform policies and the impact of economic policy reforms and austerity measures on
women’s human rights. The report of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and
transnational corporations and other business enterprises focused on the role of the State as
an economic actor, while that of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human
rights focused on the role of the International Monetary Fund and the impact of its
programmes on social protection.
10.
Issues related to peace and security were addressed by the Special Rapporteur on the
right to food, who dealt with humanitarian crises, disasters and the right to food, and the
Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, who reported
on access to water and sanitation for forcibly displaced persons. The right to education for
refugees was the focus of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, while the
Working Group on mercenaries reported on the recruitment of children by non-State armed
groups, including mercenaries and private military and security companies. In addition, the
Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons proposed an agenda
for strategic and joint action on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Guiding
Principles on Internal Displacement. The Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons
examined the gender dimension of trafficking in persons in conflict and post-conflict
settings, in particular as it related to the women and peace and security agenda of the
Security Council. The Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief studied the
relationship between freedom of religion or belief and national security. The Special
Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions studied armed non-State
actors and the protection of the right to life. Finally, the Special Rapporteur on the
promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering
terrorism addressed the impact on the protection and promotion of human rights and, inter
alia, international humanitarian law following the adoption of multiple resolutions
regulating terrorism by the Security Council in the period after 11 September 2001.
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