MORNING 13 June 2014 Hears Address by Minister for Foreign Affairs of Seychelles, Concludes Discussion on Extrajudicial Executions and Internally Displaced Persons The Human Rights Council this...

GENEVA (13 June 2014) – A group of United Nations independent experts* on slavery, migrants, trafficking, sale and sexual exploitation of children, and internally displaced persons today welcomed the...

تنقسم صحيفة الوقائع هذه إلى أربعة فصول. فالفصل الأوّل يستكشف تعريف الإتجار وعناصره الأساسية. ويبحث هذا الفصل أيضًا ببعض الأفكار الخاطئة وأشكال سوء الفهم المحيطة بالتعريف. ويتناول الفصل الثاني العلاقة...

GENEVA (23 May 2014) – A group of United Nations independent experts on slavery, migrants and trafficking today called on world Governments to adopt a legally binding international protocol to respond...

BANGKOK (22 May 2014) – More than ten years after the entry into force of the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (the Palermo Protocol)...

GENEVA (8 May 2014) – A group of United Nations and African human rights experts on Thursday called on the Boko Haram armed group to immediately release the girls abducted in Borno State, Nigeria. The...

3 March 2014 Introduction The mandate was created in 2004 by the Commission on Human Rights, at its sixtieth session (decision 2004/110), when it appointed, for a three-year period, a Special...

18 February 2014 First let me warmly thank the organisers for inviting me to this conference which I was only able to join today because of another meeting not far from here at the UNODC. As Special...

MAHE / GENEVA (3 February 2014) – “Yes Seychelles is an island but not an island out of reach of traffickers and their nefarious activities in today’s globalised world,” the United Nations Special...

MAHE (31 January 2014) Seychelles should accelerate its efforts in putting in place appropriate mechanisms to prevent and combat trafficking in persons, especially women and children Background and...