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Excerpts from Conclusions:
*In terms of the challenges
associated with tackling human trafficking, the lack of reliable and complete
data is a major problem. Therefore, an effective means for combating
trafficking in persons will require enhanced information sharing between States
through bilateral and multilateral cooperation and increased data collection
capacities, including through the systematic collection of gender- and
age-disaggregated data.
*Trafficking in persons results in
cumulative breaches of human rights, and this correlation needs to be
recognized in any intervention effort. As far as the mandate of the Special
Rapporteur is concerned, the real challenge is not just in adopting strategies
that will effectively lead to catching the perpetrators and punishing them.
Rather, it is preferable to put in place strategies that will focus equally on
the victim by recognizing and redressing the violations suffered, empowering
the victim to speak out without being doubly victimized, jeopardized or
stigmatized, while at the same time targeting the root causes of human trafficking.
The strategies must be people-centred, bearing in mind that human trafficking
is about persons whose basic right to live free particularly from fear and
want, is under constant threat. We must recognize the dignity of the victims
and their right to survival and development. Thus, restorative justice is
central to combating human trafficking.
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Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/10/16 20 February 2009 Original: ENGLISH |
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Tenth Session
Agenda Item 3
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