• Announcement 3 • Domestic Implementation of International Standards Combating Human Trafficking Jean Enriquez, Executive Director (Coalition Against Trafficking in Women-Asia Pacific) First, let me say that in behalf of trafficking survivors, especially those from prostitution, and advocates in the region, I am very happy that the National Human Rights Commission of Korea is focusing on trafficking in persons as a major human rights issue, meriting coordinated responses from the governments, human rights institutions and civil society organizations. It is indeed important to review the international standards – the established universal frameworks in viewing the global problem, the nuances of such a human rights perspective, the commitments made by states and what is happening in reality. I will also attempt to analyze the roots of challenges in domestic application, as well as facilitating factors therein. My paper will primarily cover the realities in the Philippines, but will also look later at other Asian examples or cases. To review thus, the relevant international standards which have explicit mention of human trafficking or closely related issues are: 1. the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), putting particular attention to Article 6 on Trafficking; 2. the 1949 Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and o the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others; and 3. the Palermo Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. But fundamental human rights instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESR), the International Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), and the Domestic Implementation of International Standards Combating Human Trafficking ❙ 49