Addressee: Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences; Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children

Paragraph #51Session #5 (2006)

Full Text

United Nations special procedures are an essential tool for monitoring the implementation of priority human rights issues. The Permanent Forum recommends that the special procedures with a mandate on gender issues (carried out by the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, and the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children) brief the Permanent Forum each year during its annual session on the situation of indigenous women.

Responses

OHCHR reports that the recommendation was transmitted to the Special Rapporteurs, who are expected to participate in the upcoming session of the Permanent Forum.

Final Report of UNPFII Session 5 (2006)

Area of Work

Human rights