Box 6: Key human rights involved in trafficking
RIGHT/OBLIGATION
TREATY SOURCE
Right to life
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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
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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.
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Right to liberty and
security
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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.
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