protection needs under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees as well as complementary forms of protection, such as humanitarian status or other temporary protection mechanisms.. - Special measures are needed to ensure that the specific protection needs of child victims of trafficking are addressed. Such measures should include, but not be limited to, a formal determination of the best interest of the child and a systematic assessment of the child’s international protection needs. I. UNHCR’S INTEREST AND ACTIVITIES REGARDING HUMAN TRAFFICKING 1. UNHCR has been entrusted by the United Nations General Assembly with responsibility for providing international protection to refugees, and for seeking permanent solutions for the problem of refugees. UNHCR’s mandate ratione personae also includes asylum seekers, returnees, stateless persons and, under specific circumstances, internally displaced persons. 2. Neither the issue of human trafficking nor trafficking victims as such fall under UNHCR’s mandate or the scope of application of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol (hereinafter “the 1951 Convention”). However, as part of a broader international response to human trafficking, UNHCR becomes involved where human trafficking impacts on persons of concern to the Office, in particular: - To prevent refugees and other persons of concern (asylum seekers, returnees, stateless and internally displaced persons) from becoming victims of human trafficking, and to address the needs of persons of concern who have fallen victim thereto; - To ensure that international protection needs of trafficking victims (or those at risk of being trafficked) which may arise as a result of their trafficking experience are properly identified, and - To assist States in ensuring that trafficking victims who are without identity documents are able to establish their identity and nationality status in order to prevent them from being rendered stateless, and to protect stateless victims of trafficking. 3. UNHCR’s interventions and activities in the area of human trafficking are based on the premise that this specific crime may entail abuses or serious threats to the human rights of the victims and that an international protection response may be called for to 58 ❙ Seoul International Conference Against Human Trafficking in Migrant Women