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   "United Nations A/HRC/60/L.8   
   General Assembly Distr.: Limited   
   30 September 2025   
   Original: English   
   Human Rights Council   
   Sixtieth session   
   8 September–8 October 2025   
   Agenda item 3   
   Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,   
   political, economic, social and cultural rights,   
   including the right to development   
   [. . .]   
   60/… Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery and   
   trafficking in persons   
   The Human Rights Council,   
   Guided by the Charter of the United Nations,   
   Guided also by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the    
   International   
   Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International    
   Covenant on Civil   
   and Political Rights,   
   [. . .]   
   3. Decides to merge the mandate of Special Rapporteur on contemporary    
   forms   
   of slavery, including its causes and consequences and the mandate of    
   Special Rapporteur on   
   trafficking in persons, especially women and children, and therefore    
   further decides to   
   establish one mandate that will operate under the title of Special    
   Rapporteur on contemporary   
   forms of slavery and trafficking in persons, for a period of three years;   
   4. Also decides that the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of    
   slavery and   
   trafficking in persons will examine and report on all contemporary forms    
   of slavery and   
   trafficking in persons as related yet distinct matters, as guided by    
   Human Rights Council   
   resolutions 26/8 of 26 June 2014 and 51/15 of 6 October 2022, and other    
   resolutions on the   
   mandate of Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women    
   and girls and the   
   mandate of Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including    
   its causes and   
   consequences;   
   5. Further decides that the new mandate holder on contemporary forms of    
   slavery   
   and trafficking in persons will start his or her functions on 1 May 2026    
   with the understanding   
   that the current Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially    
   women and children   
   will continue her mandate until July 2026, and also decides that, during    
   the transition period,   
   the new mandate holder will not undertake activities relating to    
   trafficking in persons until   
   the conclusion of the mandate of the current Special Rapporteur on    
   trafficking in persons,   
   especially women and girls;"   
   says   
   HTTPS://docs.UN.org/en/A/HRC/60/L.8   
      
   It was adopted today. Cf.   
   "Main Sponsor(s)   Date/Time of submission   Documents  Result of the Vote    
   Date of consideration   
   [. . .]   
   [. . .] United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Argentina,    
   Australia, Germany, Jordan, Philippines	22/09/2025 13:58   
   PBIEAs issuedACEFRSAs receivedE   
   Adopted without a vote	08/10/2025"   
   says   
   HTTPS://HRCMeetings.OHCHR.org/HRCSessions/RegularSessions/60/Pag   
   s/resolutions.aspx   
      
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