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A New UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking to be Appointed

The 60th session of the Commission on Human Rights is set to appoint a new special procedure - a special rapporteur on trafficking. The resolution on special rapporteur on trafficking is being sponsored, among others, by Australia, Costa Rica, Congo, Germany, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Philippines and Poland. Following the adoption of the Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and its two Optional Protocols in November 2000, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights submitted “Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking” during the substantive session of the United Nations Economic and Social Council in July 2002. However, little concrete has been done to implement the recommended Principles and Guidelines.

A Special Rapporteur on trafficking may go beyond the generic mandate accorded to the Special Procedures to play the pivotal role not only with regard to reporting to the Commission on Human Rights about the patterns of trafficking which require immediate attention and intervention but also to provide expertise and guidance to the UN agencies and other interested national and regional agencies to streamline their programmes for combating trafficking in persons more effectively.

See: http://www.achrweb.org/features/ACHRF16-04.htm