A/HRC/26/37 by the Special Rapporteur in the course of her work,15 pointing to a need for all countries to monitor and regularly evaluate the impact of their prevention efforts. 59. Addressing demand. Trafficking feeds into a global market that seeks out cheap, unregulated and exploitable labour and the goods and services that such labour can produce. Both mandate holders have affirmed that international law requires States to discourage the demand that fosters exploitation related to trafficking.16 The Special Rapporteur has examined that demand in detail in the context of a review of prevention (A/65/288, paras. 29–38) and in a dedicated report (A/HRC/23/48). In the latter report, the Special Rapporteur recommended that States take steps to understand the nature of demand and develop measures to discourage it, based on accurate information and experience. Basic human rights, including the prohibition on discrimination, should further guide this process. The Special Rapporteur also noted the importance of ensuring that measures to address demand do not themselves negatively affect individual rights and freedoms. 60. Supply chains and public-private partnerships. The mandate has maintained a strong focus on non-State actors and the role they can or should play in preventing and responding to trafficking. Information about trafficked labour in the supply chains of major industries, including agriculture, information and communications technology, fishing, garmentmaking and textiles, has alerted the mandate to the importance of engaging directly with business corporations. Over the past years, the Special Rapporteur has taken up this difficult issue, undertaking research and holding wide-ranging consultations on trafficking in global supply chains. In a dedicated report she outlined a series of clear and practical recommendations for businesses and States to help them eliminate trafficking in the supply chain (A/67/261). This provided the basis for further consultations with business experts that resulted in a draft set of benchmarks and indicators for ensuring that supply chains are free of trafficking. That draft was presented to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-third session (A/HRC/23/48/Add.4, appendix I) and the second United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights in 2013. E. Trafficking in persons for the removal of organs 61. While trafficking in persons for the removal of organs is specified as a form of exploitation related to trafficking in the international legal definition, until very recently the mandate did not deal substantively with this issue. This reflected the paucity of reliable information on the practice and uncertainty around its true extent. However, in recent years, there have been a series of reputable reports documenting systematic trafficking in persons for the removal of organs in several different regions of the world and major prosecutions in Africa and Europe. Anecdotal reports of this form of trafficking in persons were also provided to the mandate in the context of recent country visits. Consistently with the commitment of the mandate to tackling difficult, emerging and under-researched issues, the Special Rapporteur focused her attention on trafficking in persons for the removal of organs, with a view to contributing to the international conversation at a pivotal point. She reported on trafficking in persons for the removal of organs on the basis of an expert background paper, peer-reviewed by an informal group of transplant specialists, ethicists and researchers. (A/68/256). 15 16 16 See, for example, A/65/288, para. 45. Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, art. 9 (5) and Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, art. 6.