SECOND PART: APPLICATION FORM IN WORD
(appointments to be made at HRC26 in June 2014)
Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and
children [HRC res. 17/1]
How to start the application process:
- The application process has been split into 2 parts, the first part is a Webbased survey and the second part is an application form in word which can be
downloaded, completed and returned by email. Both parts and all sections of
the application form should be filled in for the application to be processed.
The first part, i.e. the Web-based survey is used to collect information for
statistical purposes such as personal data (i.e. name, gender, nationality),
contact details, mandate/s applying for and nominating entity. The webbased survey should only be completed once, i.e. multiple selection
allowed to indicate if the candidate is applying for more than one mandates.
This is the second part, i.e. of the application form in Word which can be
downloaded, completed and saved in word format and then submitted as an
attachment by email. Information provided in this form, includes a motivation
letter of maximum 600 words, will be used as received to prepare the public
list of candidates who applied for each vacancy and will be made available to
concerned parties, including through the OHCHR Internet.
Once completed the application form in Word should be submitted by email to
hrcspecialprocedures@ohchr.org
If the candidate is applying for more than one mandates, an application form
needs to be completed and sent for each mandate.
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A maximum of 3 reference letters can be attached, in pdf format, to the
application sent by email. No additional document is required.
Application Deadline: Wednesday, 23 April 2014 (midnight,
GMT).
Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed at a later stage.
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An acknowledgment will be sent when we receive both parts of the
application process, i.e. the information through the web-based
survey and the application form through email.
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SECOND PART: APPLICATION FORM IN WORD
(appointments to be made at HRC26 in June 2014)
Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and
children [HRC res. 17/1]
I. PERSONAL DATA
Family Name:
Castro Soto
First Name:
Oscar
Maiden name (if any):
Middle name: Arturo
Sex:
Male
Female
Date of birth (dd-mm-yy): 6-nov-70
Place of birth: Mexico
Nationality(please indicate the
nationality that will appear on the public
list of candidates): Mexican
Any other nationality: .
II. MANDATE - SPECIFIC COMPETENCE/QUALIFICATION/KNOWLEDGE
NOTE: Please describe why the candidate’s
competence/qualifications/knowledge is relevant in relation to the
specific mandate:
QUALIFICATIONS (200 words)
Relevant educational
qualifications or equivalent
professional experience in the
field of human rights; good
communication skills (i.e. orally
and in writing) in one of the
official languages of the United
Nations (i.e. Arabic, Chinese,
English, French, Russian,
Spanish.)
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Ph.D candidate in Social and Political
Sciences with a specialty in Sociology by
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
with a doctoral thesis entitled "Women in
front of human trafficking situations in
Latin America". His bachelor´s degree in
Education by Universidad Veracruzana. He
has a Master degree in Sociology by
Universidad Iberoamericana Santa Fe with
the thesis entitled "Popular iniciative in
Tlaxcala, colective actions for women in
trafficking combat".He has more than ten
books and cientific articles, related to
human trafficking and coletive actions on
human rights. In the last six years, he was
co-founder and Director of the Human
Rigths Institute Ignacio Ellacuría sj, in the
Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, that
makes research in human rigths, defense
of cases related, and articulated actions
with different human rights movements,
particularly in human trafficking problems,
irregular migration, human rights violations
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children [HRC res. 17/1]
RELEVANT EXPERTISE (200
words)
Knowledge of international
human rights instruments,
norms and principles. (Please
state how this was acquired).
Knowledge of institutional
mandates related to the United
Nations or other international or
regional organizations’ work in
the area of human rights.
(Please state how this was
acquired).
Proven work experience in the
field of human rights. (Please
state years of experience.
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in prisons, violence against women and
human rights affected by huge ambiental
projects.
Nowdays, is professor and researcher of
the Cátedra Latinoamericana Ignacio
Ellacuría, at the same university, and
teaches human rigths issues in other
universities in Mexico and Central America.
Good comunications skills in his native
lenguage, spanish, orally and writing, and
has medium skills in english and french.
Through participation in work groups about
human rights violation cases, he has
contibuted in human right reports to the
Interamerican Human Rigths Comission,
and shadow reports to the United Nations
Human Rigths Committee, and civil society
reports for Mexican Universal Periodic
Review. The researches of the Master
degree and the PHD, and other
publications, include an exhaustive
panorama of international and national
human rigth instruments, particularly on
the Universal and the Interamerican
systems. Particularly, in the researcehs
about justice access for women an children
in human traffciking, and the United
Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime and its Protocols, so the
legistlative and policy making
harmonization with local issues in Latin
American Countries, especially Mexico.
These researches also include the reports
of the United Nations Special Rappourters
in Trafficking in Persons, especially women
and children, and Violence against Women.
The candidate has had work experience in
Human Rights Non Governmental
Organizations since 1990, and now is
researcher of human rigths
fundamentation, human rights social
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complex problems, social movements and
actual debates, at Universidad
Iberoamericana University. He has been
confrence speaker in diverse international
forms about traffiking in persons, migration
and human rights.
ESTABLISHED COMPETENCE
(200 words)
Nationally, regionally or
internationally recognized
competence related to human
rights. (Please explain how such
competence was acquired).
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He was part of the three Latin American
Trafic and Trafficking in Persons
organization teams Congresses, in
Universidad de Buenos Aires Argentina
(2008), Unversidad Iberoamericana Puebla,
México (2010), -in which he was General
Secretary, and Universidad de los Andes,
Bogotá Colombia (2013). He was cofounder and the first President of the
Latinamerican Human Trafficking in
Persons Observatory (2010-2103), that
includes several universities, human rights
civil organizations, and researchers in
women and children human rights in all
Latin America, which are integrated for
research, formation, and interactive
agendas with local authorities in seventeen
countries.
He also takes part in the coordinator team
of the "Catedra Latinoamericana de Análisis
de la Realidad Política y Social Ignacio
Ellacuria sj" that is promoted by the Latin
America Jesuit Univetsities Asociation
(AUSJAL), that makes analysis of complex
human rights problems, from a sociohistorical point of view in Latin America.
He is member of many Councils an
assambles of human rigths civil
organizations in Mexico, such as Un Mundo
Una Nación A. C., non governmental
organization that contribute with
humanitary help and gives protection and
advices to centroamerican irregular
migrants in their way across Mexico. He
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(appointments to be made at HRC26 in June 2014)
Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and
children [HRC res. 17/1]
was part of Human Rights, Democracy and
Development Interamerican Platform, years
ago.
FLEXIBILITY/READINESS AND
AVAILABILITY OF TIME (200
words)
to perform effectively the
functions of the mandate and to
respond to its requirements,
including participating in Human
Rights Council sessions in
Geneva and General Assembly
sessions in New York, travelling
on special procedures visits,
drafting reports and engaging
with a variety of stakeholders.
(Indicate whether candidate can
dedicate an estimated total of
approx. three months per year
to the work of a mandate)
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Nowadays, he works as a professorresearcher in the Universidad
Iberoamericana Puebla, as part of the
Jesuit Universities System in Mexico, and
in trafficking in persons and human rights
complex problems at the Cátedra
Latinoamericana Ignacio Ellacuría. The fact
of been researcher involves availability,
flexibility and readness to make the
services that Special Rapporteur in
Trafficking in Persons, especially women an
children would requiere, including
participating en Human Rigths Council
sessions in Geneve and General Assemble
sessions in new York, and traveling on
special procedures visits. As a researcher,
he has an experience in drafting reports
and interact with variety of officials and
authorities.
In last years, he had ocuppied some
charges in civil society netwoks that had
included a variety of visits to another
countries in Latin America forums, and had
made some research in human trafficking
that was supported by the Universidad
Iberaomericana Puebla.
In the next years, it'll be his intention to
apply to the National Researchers System
in Mexico so the research topics that are
involved in his investigations could be
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sponsored, among other academic issues
at the university. To have a United Nations
Human Rithts High Commisioner Office in
Mexico can help also, with the logistic
operations.
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SECOND PART: APPLICATION FORM IN WORD
(appointments to be made at HRC26 in June 2014)
Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and
children [HRC res. 17/1]
III. LANGUAGES (READ / WRITTEN / SPOKEN)
Please indicate all language skills
Languages
Arabic
Chinese
English
French
Russian
Spanish
Mother
tongue:
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Read
Not
Easily
Easily
Write
Easily
Not
Easily
Speak
Not
Easily
Easily
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children [HRC res. 17/1]
IV. Motivation Letter (600 word limit)
Contributing with the service of being Special Rapporteur in trafficking in
persons, specially women and children, provides the issues for incidence in
local authorities to perform well their job, in adition to colaborate in reseach of
human rigths violation cases, commited against women, children or any
person who is in trafficking situation.
I have had the oportunitty of research the modus operandi of some local
criminal organization and diverse women trafficking situations in Latin
america, and had the experience to talk with authorities, civil organizations
and academic reserchers, victims and interested people, in many countries,
through researches, academic congresses, courses and diplomas for
prosecutors and civil society.
I think that traffiking in persons is a human rights complex problem that
involves many actors and many situations. This kind of human right problems
doesn´t have a succesfull solution because of all the harm that causes to the
victims. Nevertheless, to provide laws, prosecute crime organizations, provide
public policies to prevent and attend potential victims and give the victims the
oportunitty to remake their lives, are issues that combat this complex
problem.
Trafficking in person outcomes responds at the logic of global capitalism, that
assure the maximum profits in fewer time as possible, in an ilegal and
illegitimate way, by the explotation of human beings. I believe that access to
justice should walk in the oposite direction. Justice has to provide the victims
the shortest way to damage repairs and the correct rights restitution as soon
as posible. The States Parties of Conventions and Human Rights Protocols
have to design plans and routes to do this reality, but not in a simple way. The
main efforts that countries have done are insuficient to modify the problem,
because they don´t attend the structural causes as well: the trade logic and
the cultural issues in a capitalist and patriarcal world.
Even the service of the Special Repporteurs are limited, this sights should
provide important tools to combat the traficking in person. Government should
understand their main role of regulation of capitalism, and provide policies
that combat discrimination, violence against women and children, migrants,
criminal organizations and poverty. Those should be the topics of their efforts:
to provide better conditions for people to live, and look at the human rights as
negative moral agreements.
The observance of international agreements in human rigths is the way that
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Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and
children [HRC res. 17/1]
global society has done to make sure the goverments accomplish, promote
and respect human rights, and make sure that they can be requiered and a
subject of review by a court. The Periodic Universal Review at the United
Nations Human Rigths Council, where each country expose their efforts on
preserve the human rights in their countries, and the efforts of the Special
porcedures are mecanisms that can ensure progresibility of global concience.
But the main efforts should be at every country and the regional mecanisms to
do the human rigths instruments that provides victims justice and punish
human rights violations. Each case should be investigated, and the special
repporteurs can provide aid and press the authorities in what each country
should work.
The experiences in these fields aren´t enough, but they should be recovered
to advance straight on forwards. I think that in all procedures have to keep
the sigth of the victims, so they can talk and make themselves persons of
their own history. They have to remake their histories and have a world about
what it hapenns and how the world should be, for them and for other victims.
Nevertheless, authorities shouldn´t treat them like victims, but persons who
have a future. The term victim has a tendency to relate the worst past and tie
down the individuals identity. So the borderline between the victim and the
person is an historic process. Those are my convictions and my efforts.
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(appointments to be made at HRC26 in June 2014)
Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and
children [HRC res. 17/1]
V. EDUCATIONAL RECORD
NOTE: Please list the candidate’s academic qualifications: (university
level and higher)
Name of degree and name of academic
institution
Years of
Attendance
Place and
Country
PHD in Politics and social science with a
sociological especiallity by Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México
five years
México
Master in Sicology by Universidad
Iberoamericana Plantel Santa Fé
tree years
México
Diploma in Child Exploitation and traffiking in
persons bya Instituto Politécnico Nacional y
Universidad Iberoamericana Plantel Santa Fé
360 hrs
México
Licenciatura en Pedagogía por la Universidad
Veracruzana
five years
México
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children [HRC res. 17/1]
VI. EMPLOYMENT RECORD
NOTE: Please briefly list ALL RELEVANT professional positions held,
beginning with the most recent one:
Name of Employer
Functional Title
Main functions of position
Years of
Attendance/
Work
Place
and
Country
Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla. Human Rights
2009-2013
Institute Ignacio Ellacuría sj. Director.
Representation and management of the Institute with
other academic stablishments at the university, and
authorities in human rigths issues like: migrant's
human rights (specially centroamerican in transit by
México), trafficking in persons, persons in prission´s
human rights, violence against women and children.
Responsable of Cátedra Latinoamericana Ignacio
Ellacuría sj. Professor and researcher. Research about 2014philosophy of human rigths, complex problems on
human rigths, trafficking in persons and the thougth
of Ignacio Ellacuría
México
Centro de Estudios Sociales y Culturales Antonio de
Montesinos, A. C. Presidente.
Management of civil organization, representation with
authorities, projects managements and enganging
stakeholders to provide economic resources for
economics, social and cultural human rights projects.
Researcher.
Researcher about social policies, publc programs and
poverty en México in some republic states: housing,
alimentation, social security, work, social
development as human rigths,i nteralia.
México
Centro Fray Julián Garcés, Derechos Humanos y
Desarrollo Local, A. C. Co-founder and Director.
Civil organization of human rigths that provides
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2006-2008
1999-2003
2002-2005
México
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courses and organization to local groups and research
about cases of human rights violations, specially
traffking in persons , women and children who are in
diferent situations of human traffiking. This centre
have organized the Popular Iniciative to include
trafficking in persons fellony in the local Penal Code.
Centro de Servicios Municipales Heriberto Jara, A. C.
Investigador.
Research about local authorities competences in
human rigths, specially in social policies, poverty and
social resolutions of conflicts. The civil organizations
provides social courses and diplomas to the local
authorities in municipal management and human
rigths.
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México
1994-1998
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VII. COMPLIANCE WITH ETHICS AND INTEGRITY PROVISIONS (of
Council Resolution 5/1)
1. To your knowledge, does the candidate have any official, professional,
personal, or financial relationships that might cause him/her to limit the extent
of their inquiries, to limit disclosure, or to weaken or slant findings in any way?
If yes, please explain.
No
2. Are there any factors that could either directly or indirectly influence,
pressure, threaten, or otherwise affect the candidate’s ability to act
independently in discharging his/her mandate? If yes, please explain:
No
3. Is there any reason, currently or in that past, that could call into question
the candidate’s moral authority and credibility or does the candidate hold any
views or opinions that could prejudice the manner in which she/he discharges
his mandate? If yes, please explain:
No
4. Does the candidate comply with the provisions in paragraph 44 and 46 of
the Annex to Human Rights Council resolution 5/1?
Para. 44: The principle of non-accumulation of human rights functions at
a time shall be respected.
Para. 46: Individuals holding decision-making positions in Government
or in any other organization or entity which may give rise to a conflict of
interest with the responsibilities inherent to the mandate shall be
excluded. Mandate-holders will act in their personal capacity
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Yes, he complies
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children [HRC res. 17/1]
5. Should the candidate be appointed as a mandate holder, he/she will have to
take measures to comply with paragraphs 44 and 46 of the Annex to Council
resolution 5/1. In the event that the current occupation or activity, even if
unpaid, of the candidate may give rise to a conflict of interest (e.g. if a
candidate holds a decision-making position in Government) and/or there is an
accumulation of human rights functions (e.g. as a member of another human
rights mechanism at the international, regional or national level), necessary
measures could include relinquishing positions, occupations or activities. If
applicable, please indicate the measures the candidate will take.
Not applicable
You will receive an acknowledgment when we receive both parts of the
application process, i.e. the information through the Web-based application and
the Word application form by email.
Thank you for your interest.
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