Box 6: Key human rights involved in trafficking RIGHT/OBLIGATION TREATY SOURCE Right to life • • • • • • • • Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 3; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, article 6; Migrant Workers Convention, article 9; Convention on the Rights of the Child, article 6; Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, article 10; European Convention on Human Rights, article 2; American Convention on Human Rights, article 4; African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, article 4. Prohibition on discrimination • • Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 2; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, articles 2 (1) and 26; Convention on the Rights of the Child, article 2; Migrant Workers Convention, article 7; International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, article 2 (2); Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, article 6; European Convention on Human Rights, article 14; American Convention on Human Rights, article 1 (includes “economic status”); African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, article 2 (includes “fortune”). Non-treaty source: Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, article 1. • • • • • • • • Right to liberty and security • • • • • • • • Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 3; International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, article 5 (b); International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, article 9; Migrant Workers Convention, article 16; Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, article 14; European Convention on Human Rights, article 5; American Convention on Human Rights, article 7; African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, article 6. (continued on next page) COMMENTARY 53