A/HRC/30/35 I. Introduction 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 24/3, renewing the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, for three years. Following a brief overview of the activities carried out by the mandate holder, the Special Rapporteur, Urmila Bhoola, then focuses on one of the priority areas as identified in her first report to the Council (A/HRC/27/53): the duty of States and responsibility of business to eliminate contemporary forms of slavery from supply chains. II. Activities of the mandate 2. The Special Rapporteur conducted official country visits to the Niger and Belgium from 11 to 21 November 2014 and from 19 and 26 February 2015, respectively, and her mission reports are issued as addenda to the present report. She would like to reiterate her gratitude to the Government of the Niger and the Government of Belgium for the cooperation extended before and during the visit and looks forward to continued cooperation on the issues pertaining to her mandate. The Special Rapporteur also wishes to thank all those States that have extended to her an invitation for a visit. 3. Since the presentation of her report to the Council in September 2014, the Special Rapporteur has held consultations with various stakeholders and participated in several events relevant to the mandate, with those most prominent presented below. 4. On 10 September 2014, she made concluding remarks at a Council side event entitled “Religions and Slavery: What role for religions in the fight against contemporary forms of slavery?”, supported by the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See and the Permanent Observer Mission of the Order of Malta to the United Nations Office at Geneva. 5. On 1 December 2014, she delivered a keynote speech via video message at a conference entitled “Child Labour and Responsibility of European Consumers”, organized in Vienna on the occasion of the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery by the Academic Council on the United Nations System. 6. From 22 to 23 January 2015, the Special Rapporteur participated in the Global Care Advocacy Workshop, held under the auspices of the Asia Pacific Forum on Women in Law and Development, the Institute for Development Studies and Action Aid International in Bangkok, where she chaired a session on the role of the mandate in eradicating domestic servitude. 7. From 17 to 19 March 2015, the Special Rapporteur participated at the second international legal conference on contemporary forms of slavery, organized at the University of Granada, Spain, and provided an inaugural address. 8. From 25 to 27 March 2015, she presented a paper on the role of the special procedures and human rights treaty bodies in addressing criminal justice for slavery at a policy retreat on “Eradicating modern slavery: What role for international criminal justice?”, organized by the United Nations University, the Freedom Fund, the Permanent Mission of Liechtenstein to the United Nations and the Journal of International Criminal Justice in New York. Prior to that, from 22 to 24 March 2015, the Special Rapporteur held consultation meetings with the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking, and Humanity United in Washington, D.C. She also met with the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable, Human Rights First, the United States Agency for International Development and the Bureau of International Labor Affairs. 3