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This is the report of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People submitted to the General Assembly in accordance with paragraph 2 of its resolution 68/12 of 26...

The present report, submitted to the General Assembly pursuant to Assembly resolution 48/141, highlights some of the main achievements of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is the first international agreement setting out freedoms, rights and entitlements for all humanity to claim. It emphasizes the inextricable...

Trafficking in human beings has become one of the most serious problems in the Russian Federation. Trafficking in women is now a multi-billion dollar industry and a key source of revenue for Russian...

The US State Department included South Korea among its list of twenty-three countries that failed to meet minimum standards in attempting to stop the trafficking in human beings, primarily women and...

This report by Professor Elizabeth Kelly assesses the current state of knowledge on the trafficking of women and children in Europe. It states that, despite growing interest and concern, information...

The Human Rights Committee started its work under the Optional Protocol at its second session in 1977. From then until its eighty-fourth session in 2005, 1414 communications relating to alleged...

The worldwide eradication of the practice of torture was one of the major challenges of the United Nations only a few years after it was created. To ensure adequate protection for all persons against...

Prior to the World Cup in Germany in 2006, there was considerable international concern that this event would contribute to a sharp increase in trafficking for sexual exploitation. This report...

To date, trafficking in males has been underconsidered in research despite noteworthy signals that it is a violation faced by many males, adults and minors. Through the case of Belarus and Ukraine...

This tool identifies core principles that should guide United Nations personnel when confronted with draft amnesties that may be inconsistent with international law and United Nations policy. The...

This is the official record of the Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on the Seventieth Session (19 February-9 March 2007); Seventy-first Session (30 July-17 August...

The report shows that important research has been undertaken on the transnational crime aspects of migrant smuggling, including on routes, smuggling organizations (such as criminal networking and...

The State of the World’s Children 2016, a UNICEF flagship report, argues that progress for the most disadvantaged children and families is the defining condition for delivering on the 2030 Sustainable...

This book includes perspectives from a broad range of victims. including family members of the crime victims; convicted persons whose rights are violated by the justice system through wrongful...

The UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2016 is the third of its kind mandated by the United Nations General Assembly. In July 2010, the UNGA adopted the Global Plan of Action to Combat...

The growing crisis of refugee and migrant children' presents, for the first time, comprehensive, global data about refugee and migrant children - where they were born, where they move and some of the...