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Slavery and the slave trade - IHEU Durban II references
Submitted by admin on 29 January, 2009 - 10:03
Slavery, the slave trade, the transatlantic slave trade, and trafficking in persons are mentioned in ten of the 250 paragraphs of the Durban Review Conference draft outcome document.
(See Annex for full text)
Section 1: Review of Progress on the DDPA
Paragraphs 19, 20, 21 relate to the need to remember and commemorate the victims of slavery.
Section 2: Effectiveness of follow-up mechanisms
Paragraph 54, 55, 56 relate on trafficking. (See Annex for full text)
Three paragraphs (57, 58, 59) relate on contemporary forms of slavery.
Section 3, 4
No mention of slavery or trafficking
Section 5: Further concrete measures for combating racism etc.
One para (229) on the importance of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery.
Annex:
Paragraphs of the DRC draft outcome Document relating directly to slavery and trafficking.
Section 1: Review of Progress on the DDPA
19. Pays tribute to countries and personalities who lent their valuable support to Africa during its struggle against institutionalized racism, colonialism and apartheid; (para 329 section 1)
20. Welcomes the actions taken to commemorate the memory of victims of slavery and the slave trade, in particular the transatlantic slave trade, and the abolition of those historic tragedies, and stresses the need to similarly address the trans-Saharan slave trade and the slave trade in the Indian Ocean. Welcomes the adoption of GA Resolutions 61/19 and 62/122 related to the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and remembrance of its victims and, in particular, the designation of 25 March as the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade; (merger paras 127, 338 section 1)
21. Appreciates the expressions of regret or remorse, apologies or payment of reparations, or restitution of cultural artifacts that have been forthcoming since the adoption of the DDPA; (para 15 section 1)
Section 2: Effectiveness of follow-up mechanisms
54. Recognizes that victims of trafficking are particularly exposed to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and that women and girl victims are often subject to multiple forms of discrimination and violence, including on the grounds of their gender, age, ethnicity, culture and religion, as well as their origins, and that these forms of discrimination themselves may fuel trafficking in persons; (para 119 section 1)
55. Recognizes the need to provide practical, rights-based approach policy guidance on the prevention of trafficking and the protection of trafficked persons with a view to facilitating the integration of a human rights perspective into national, regional, and international anti-trafficking laws, policies and interventions; (para 118 section 1)
56. Notes efforts by States and organizations to prevent and combat trafficking in persons and to enhance the protection of and assistance to victims of trafficking in persons, for instance the development of action plans and best practices, standards and procedures for combating and preventing trafficking in human beings; (para 120 section 1)
57. Recalling that slavery and slavery-like practices were recognized in the DDPA as crimes against humanity, recognizes that victims of slavery and slavery-like practices are particularly exposed to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and that women and girl victims are often subject to multiple forms of discrimination and violence, including on the grounds of their gender, age, ethnicity, culture and religion, as well as their origins, and that these forms of discrimination themselves may fuel slavery and slavery-like practices; (merger paras 15 a), 21 section 1)
58. Deplores the lack of willingness of certain countries to adopt measures to end enslavement and slavery-like practices, including contemporary forms of slavery, debt bondage, slavery, sexual exploitation or labour exploitation, which constitute flagrant violations of human rights; (para 126 section 1)
59. Stresses that the issue of contemporary forms of slavery needs to be given greater prominence and priority if these practices are to be eradicated once and for all; (para 16 section 1)
Section 3, 4 : no mention of trafficking
Section 5: Further concrete measures for combating racism etc
229. Invites the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, especially women and children, while performing her/his function, to take into consideration the Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking developed by the OHCHR in 2002 to provide practical, rights-based approach policy guidance on the prevention of trafficking and the protection of trafficked persons and with a view to facilitating the integration of a human rights perspective into national, regional, and international anti-trafficking laws, policies and interventions; (para 74 section 2)
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