Regional Consultation on the Right to an Effective Remedy for Trafficked Persons

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Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and
children

Agenda
Regional Consultation on the Right to an Effective Remedy
for Trafficked Persons
Thursday 21 November 2013,
Hilton Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria

09.00-09.30

Registration

09.30-10.00

Opening session
Welcome
Daouda Traouré, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident
Representative, Nigeria
Introduction and objectives to the consultation
Chair
Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially
women and children
Opening Remarks
Mohammed Bello Adoke SAN, the Honourable Attorney General of the
Federation and Minister of Justice of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

10.00-10.45

Overview of the international and regional legal frameworks and
initiatives on the right to an effective remedy
Jayne Huckerby, Associate Professor of clinical law, Duke University,
School of Law, USA
Victoria Onuoha, Benin City University, Edo state, Nigeria
Discussion
Coffee break

10.45-11.00

Reparation and Compensation

11.00-12.00

Beatrice Jedy Agba, Executive Secretary of the National Agency for the
Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and other Related Matters (NAPTIP)
Procedural preconditions in realizing the right to effective remedies
Victoria Ijeoma Nwogu, Gender Specialist, United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP), Somalia


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Discussion

12.00-13.30

Buffet lunch

13.30-15.00

Restitution and Recovery (Rehabilitation)
Alice Maranga, Program Officer, Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA)
Kenya
Eric Peasah, Director, Right To Be Free, Ghana
Discussion

15.00-15.15

Coffee break

15.15-16.30

The Draft Basic Principles on the right to an effective remedy for
trafficked persons
Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially
women and children
Discussion

16.30-17.00

Conclusions and recommendations
Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially
women and children

The working language of the meeting will be English, simultaneous interpreting into French will be
provided.