Summary

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, focuses on the gender dimension of trafficking in persons in conflict and post-conflict settings and its nexus with conflict-related sexual violence, as it relates to the women and peace and security agenda of the Security Council. By exploring the content of Council resolution 1325 (2000) and the agenda that stems from it, namely, the four pillars of conflict prevention and peacebuilding, protection, participation, and relief and recovery, the Special Rapporteur argues that, in order to ensure more efficient anti-trafficking responses, a human rights-based approach to trafficking in persons should be mainstreamed into all pillars of the women and peace and security agenda.

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur offers recommendations to Member States on how to better integrate a human rights-based approach to trafficking in persons into prevention, protection, participation and relief and recovery initiatives and measures and to United Nations bodies and agencies, civil society organizations and other stakeholders on how to mainstream trafficking into all their areas of work relating to conflict and post-conflict settings.