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Document Type: Final Report

Date: 2008 Aug

Session: 9th Regular Session (2008 Sep)

Agenda Item: Item3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

GE.08-15166 (E) 220808

UNITED NATIONS

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General Assembly Distr. GENERAL

A/HRC/9/27 20 August 2008

Original: ENGLISH

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Ninth session Agenda item 3

PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT

Trafficking in persons, especially women and children

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the latest developments in the United Nations relating to combating trafficking in persons as well as on the activities of the Office on this issue

Note by the secretariat

Pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 8/12, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights was requested to submit a report to the Council at its ninth session on the latest developments in the United Nations relating to combating trafficking in persons as well as on the activities of the Office on this issue, including a presentation of the Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking developed by the Office. This report will instead be submitted at the tenth session of the Council to ensure that a comprehensive overview of the developments on trafficking in the United Nations system is provided and distributed well in advance of the tenth session.

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