1992//115.
Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery

At its 52nd meeting on 3 March 1992, the Commission, taking note of Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities resolution 1991/34 of 29 August 1991, decided to approve the requests of the Sub-Commission to the Secretary-General:

(a) To send a representative of the Centre for Human Rights to participate in a Council of Europe seminar on trafficking in persons and prostitution, at Strasbourg from 25 to 27 September 1991, and to report on the results of this seminar to the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery at its seventeenth session;

(b) To reassign to the Working Group a full-time Professional staff member of the Centre for Human Rights, as was the case in the past, to work on a permanent basis to ensure continuity and close coordination within and outside of the Centre for Human Rights on issues relating to contemporary forms of slavery, to prepare documentation well in advance, to facilitate the representation at the sessions of the Working Group of the largest possible number of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations with competence in the fields examined, and to report on the measures taken for this purpose to the Commission at its forty-ninth session and to the Working Group at its seventeenth session;

(c) To designate the Centre for Human Rights as the focal point for the coordination of activities in the United Nations for the suppression of contemporary forms of slavery and report on the measures taken for this purpose to the Commission at its forty-ninth session and to the Working Group at its seventeenth session;

(d) To examine the possibility of organizing the sessions of the Working Group for eight working days during the month of April or May, in order to avoid overlapping with meetings of other working groups of the Sub-Commission and the burden this places on the Centre for Human Rights, and in view of the impossibility for representatives of Governments and non-governmental organizations to attend simultaneous sessions.

[See chap. XVII.]
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