UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking to visit Lebanon

7 September 2005


The Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Sigma Huda, will visit Lebanon from 7 to 16 September 2005.

The Special Rapporteur is scheduled to go to Beirut and Tripoli to gather first-hand information on the question of human trafficking in the country. She is expected to meet with representatives of the Government, civil society organizations, trafficked persons and United Nations officials. On completion of the mission, she will prepare a report to be presented at the sixty-second session of the Commission on Human Rights in March-April 2006.

Ms. Huda, lawyer and human rights defender in Bangladesh, was appointed Special Rapporteur in October 2004. Since then she has carried out a fact-finding mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina.


For further information, please consult the OHCHR web site: http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/trafficking/

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