(g) Work in close cooperation, while avoiding unnecessary duplication, with other special procedures and subsidiary organs of the Council, relevant United Nations bodies and mechanisms, including the Inter‐agency Coordination Group on Trafficking in Persons, the treaty bodies and regional human rights mechanisms, as well as national human rights institutions and civil society and the private sector; and finally (h) to report to the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly. Consequent upon this resolution I was appointed as a mandate holder48) in 2008 and in discharging the above enumerated functions I carry out the following tasks: (a) reporting on an annual basis to both the Human Rights Council, Geneva and the UN General Assembly, New York; (b) Undertakes country visits or fact finding missions and issue specific reports on that; (c) Issue press release and (d) receive letters of allegations concerning human trafficking against UN Member States and send communications to government in respect thereof. The mandate undoubtedly, has helped to raise the profile of the problem of trafficking in persons, however, the task of eradicating trafficking is far from being over and would require concerted efforts by all stakeholders not just government or inter‐ governmental agencies but National Human Rights Institutions as well as non‐ governmental organizations including the private sector. Beyond international organizations and UN agencies, regional organizations have a huge role to play in promoting a human rights‐based approach to combating human trafficking. As I noted in my recent report to the Human Rights Council, regional and sub‐regional mechanisms play a key role in providing a response that is both multilateral and sufficiently close to countries’ realities and specificities within a certain region. Thus, we need better synergetic relationship between international, regional and sub ‐regional organizations to maximally harness those potentials in the fight against trafficking in persons. Importantly, and in view of the fact that trafficking “knows no border” there is a need to increase cooperation and capacity of States to handle readmission and reintegration of trafficking victims in line with human rights standards particularly the UN Trafficking Protocol. 48) Mandate‐holders are independent experts appointed based on their individual professional and personal qualities, expertise and experience in the area of the mandate, integrity, independence and impartiality. They serve in their personal capacity, and are not staff of the UN. They do not receive salaries nor any other financial compensation for their work. Mandates are global in scope and do not require ratification of the relevant instrument(s) by the concerned State, and have as their fundamental reference framework the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the main international human rights treaties. 16 ❙ Seoul International Conference Against Human Trafficking in Migrant Women