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  1. “Thirdly, the Security Council should tackle the drivers of the problem by asking the Special Envoy to develop effective supply-chain measures to ensure that legitimate businesses do not unwittingly encourage human trafficking from conflict zones. Such measures could draw on lessons learned from the corporate due diligence guidelines on conflict minerals, as well as recent legislation and regulation in some Member States on supply-chain transparency. Let me conclude by again thanking the Security Council for taking up this critically important issue on which the United Nations has such an important leadership role to play. It is only with such leadership that slavery will truly become a relic of history.”

    2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source

  2. “Secondly, the Security Council should make clear that it wants all parts of the United Nations system to work more effectively together to help countries tackle modern slavery in conflict zones. At present, United Nations efforts are fragmented and poorly coordinated, and the peace operations and peacebuilding actors of the United Nations are hardly involved at all. The Security Council should call on the Secretary-General to appoint a time-bound Special Envoy for the next three years to develop system-wide guidance to help United Nations actors figure out how to work better together and establish a strong global partnership with the private sector and civil society.”

    2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source

  3. “In his recent report to the General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea claimed that up to 50,000 North Koreans had been sent to work abroad in conditions that amounted to forced labour and human trafficking, in order to circumvent United Nations sanctions and earn billions in foreign currency for the country. There are several things the Security Council can do to address some of the most egregious abuses. First, the Council should send a strong deterrent signal to armed groups by calling this widespread and systematic organized policy of human trafficking what it legally is: a crime against humanity. That would signal that those responsible are subject to prosecution not just at the International Criminal Court, but by any State with jurisdiction.”

    2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source

  4. “In that respect, it is worth noting that the Council has taken important steps to encourage corporate due diligence to prevent conflict resources from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea and Somalia from entering global supply chains. In other cases, the human trafficking involved is the movement of children into forced labour for armed groups, as we have seen so gruesomely with the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda and neighbouring countries. Finally, it is also clear that, in at least one other situation already on the agenda of the Security Council, that of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, there are questions not about non-State armed groups, but State involvement in human trafficking.”

    2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source

  5. “Conflict is the source of that displacement and vulnerability. It is the engine that drives the growth of human trafficking networks. The same is true in South- East Asia, particularly in relation to the displacement from Myanmar, which is driving Rohingya into forced labour, including in the supply chains that provide seafood to Western supermarkets. Even if individuals set out on what they believe is voluntary migration, they may discover along the way or upon arrival that they are subject to illegal exploitation, and are thus the victims of human trafficking. And sometimes human trafficking does not even involve crossing international borders. Many of the conflicts with which the Council is wrestling in Africa are also driven by industrial-scale exploitation of conflict resources, fuelled by forced labour.”

    2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source

  6. “Its leader, Abubakar Shekau, has proclaimed that the hundreds of women and girls it has kidnapped will be forced into marriage with his fighters, or "be sold in the market". More broadly, conflicts in Iraq, Syria, Libya and the Sahel are displacing huge numbers of people and leaving them vulnerable to human trafficking and enslavement. Individuals displaced from these conflicts are also being exploited elsewhere, including in forced marriage, in domestic work, on construction sites and in commercial sexual exploitation, both in the Middle East and North Africa, and further afield. Increasingly closed borders and a growing unwillingness on the part of wealthier States to accept refugees also exacerbate these problems, as does the failure of officials in States with a high incidence of trafficking to enforce the laws already in place.”

    2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source

  7. “ISIS has institutionalized slavery and sexual violence in order to increase recruitment, by promising male fighters access to women and girls, to populate a new caliphate through forced pregnancy, to terrorize communities into compliance, to displace populations from strategic areas, and to generate revenue through trafficking, the slave trade and ransoms. We shall be hearing shortly from Nadia Murad Basse Taha on the unconscionable reality of enslavement under ISIS. We are also seeing enslavement in conflicts in Africa. In Nigeria, the militant group Boko Haram has a clear policy of enslavement, child recruitment, sexual slavery and forced marriage. It has abducted over 2,000 people.”

    2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source

  8. “More recently, Security Council-backed tribunals have found that human trafficking, sexual slavery and forced labour have all also played a role in conflicts in the Balkans, West Africa and Cambodia. The important work of these tribunals has helped to make it clear that there will be no impunity for slavery crimes. But unfortunately, the connection between conflict, slavery and human trafficking only seems to be growing. This is most obviously the case with ISIS. In most conflicts slavery is relatively hidden because it is utterly taboo, but ISIS is directly challenging that taboo. Over 3,000 Yazidi women and girls are thought to be currently enslaved by ISIS, which is advocating for the revival of slavery through official policy and media outlets, organizing slave markets and contract registries, and even issuing official how-to manuals.”

    2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source

  9. “The connection between conflict and human trafficking is not new and often involves violations of other international norms against slavery, forced labour, torture and enforced disappearance. The historical context to all of this was set out in a report entitled Unshackling Development, authored by Dr. James Cockayne and issued by the Freedom Fund and United Nations University, which pointed out that for almost a century the League of Nations and the United Nations system have addressed human trafficking, forced labour and traditional forms of slavery all together. In the Second World War, there was widespread enslavement, forced labour and sexual slavery, and these crimes were prosecuted and condemned by the Nuremburg Military Tribunals and the Tokyo Tribunal.”

    2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source

  10. “Mr. Grono: I thank the Security Council for taking up the issue of human trafficking in conflict today. The reality is that armed conflict leaves civilians highly vulnerable to extreme forms of exploitation, such as forced labour, slavery and slavery-like practices. We are seeing that most starkly right now with the enslavement of Yazidi women and girls by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS). The massive displacement of civilian populations that usually accompanies conflict also facilitates the movement of people into these highly exploitative situations. This movement for the purpose of exploitation is the very definition of human trafficking provided by the Palermo Protocol.”

    2015-12-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7585 (2015) · source