The General Assembly has also through its resolution in 2009 approved an initiative to have a Global Plan of Action (GPA) for combating trafficking and high level consultations are ongoing in respect thereto. I believe that such global action can bring added value to current efforts by providing comprehensive, holistic and integrative approach to combating human trafficking. It will also enhance coordination, increase accountability and competitiveness to take individual and collective actions; as well as foster political and economic will including better resource mobilization.47) The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, especially women and children is part of international community response to combat trafficking. It was created first in 2004 by the then Commission on Human Rights and renewed by the United Nations Human Rights Council resolution in 2008. The Council’s resolution 8/12 expressly calls upon the Special Rapporteur to (a) Promote the prevention of trafficking in persons in all its forms and the adoption of measures to uphold and protect the human rights of victims; (b) Promote the effective application of relevant international norms and standards and to contribute to the further improvement of them; (c) Integrate a gender and age perspective throughout the work of his or her mandate, inter alia through the identification of gender and age‐specific vulnerabilities in relation to the issue of trafficking in persons; (d) Identify and share best practices as well as challenges and obstacles in order to uphold and protect the human rights of the victims and to identify protection gaps in this regard; (e) Give particular emphasis to recommendations on practical solutions with regard to the implementation of the rights relevant to the mandate, including by the identification of concrete areas and means for international cooperation to tackle the issue of trafficking in persons; (f) Request, receive and exchange information on trafficking in persons from Governments, treaty bodies, special procedures, specialized agencies, intergovernmental organizations and non‐governmental organizations and other relevant sources, as appropriate, and, in accordance with current practice, respond effectively to reliable information on alleged human rights violations with a view to protecting the human rights of actual or potential victims of trafficking; the protection of all human rights at the centre of any measures taken to prevent and end trafficking. Anti‐trafficking measures should not adversely affect the human rights and dignity of persons and, in particular, the rights of those who have been trafficked, migrants, internally displaced persons, refugees and asylum‐seekers.” 47) See Joy Ezeilo, “Articulating a Global Plan of Action: Drawing upon practice at the national and regional level” presented at an Interactive Thematic Dialogue of the United Nations General Assembly on “Taking collective action to end human trafficking” United Nations Headquarters, New York 13 May 2009. The Status of Human Trafficking of Migrant Women Around the World and the Role of the International Community ❙ 15