FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM 50 Commission, Working Groups and Special Rapporteurs are given mandate to investigate certain areas of human rights violation. Special Rapporteurs are expert individuals appointed by the High Commissioner for Human Rights. They examine, monitor and publicly report on human rights situations in specific countries or territories or on specific issues of human rights violations worldwide. Special Rapporteurs produce annual reports on their theme area and submit it to the Commission on Human Rights. Three of the thematic mandated Special Rapporteurs are especially relevant to trafficking: the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights of Migrants and the Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography.102 Recently, the 60th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights appointed a Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children The Special Rapporteur on Trafficking is likely to be given a generic mandate to gather, request, receive and exchange information and communications from all relevant sources, including governments, victims of trafficking themselves and organisations, on violations of their human rights and fundamental freedoms; formulate recommendations and proposals on appropriate measures and activities to prevent and remedy violations of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of victims of trafficking; and work in close relation with other Special Rapporteurs, working groups and independent experts of the Commission on Human Rights and of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. vi) Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice The Commission has reviewed the trends in the smuggling of illegal migrants in different parts of the world. The trafficking in persons has been considered within the overall context of violence against migrants. The United Nations General Assembly adopted work undertaken by the Commission on the formulation of model strategies and practical measures and the elimination of violence in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice103 in 1997. These represent an internationally agreed upon set of strategies and measures to upgrade and insure “fair treatment” response on the part of criminal justice systems to women victims of all 102 Seehttp://www.unhchr.ch 103 Resolution 52/86 on Crime Presentation and Criminal Justice Measures to Eliminate Violence against Women.