E/2002/68/Add.1
United Nations
Economic and Social Council
Distr.: General
20 May 2002
Original: English
Substantive session 2002
New York, 1-26 July 2002
Item 14 (g) of the provisional agenda*
Social and human rights questions: human rights
Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights
and Human Trafficking
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights to the Economic and Social Council**
Addendum
Contents
Paragraphs
Page
Recommended Principles on Human Rights and Human Trafficking . . . . . . . . . . . .
1–17
3
The primacy of human rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1–3
3
Preventing trafficking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4–6
3
Protection and assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7–11
3
Criminalization, punishment and redress. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
12–17
4
Recommended Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5
Guideline 1: Promotion and protection of human rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5
Guideline 2: Identification of trafficked persons and traffickers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6
Guideline 3: Research, analysis, evaluation and dissemination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7
Guideline 4: Ensuring an adequate legal framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8
Guideline 5: Ensuring an adequate law enforcement response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9
* E/2002/100.
** The document was submitted late to the conference services without the explanation required
under paragraph 8 of General Assembly resolution 53/208 B, by which the Assembly decided
that, if a report is submitted late, the reason should be included in a footnote to the document.
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