History

A timeline

1. 1997

   1. 1997The Hague Declaration – recommendation to appoint national rapporteurs

2. 2000

   1. 2000Appointment Anna Korvinus as the first National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings

3. 2006

   1. 2006Appointment Corinne Dettmeijer-Vermeulen as the second National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings

4. 2009 - 2012

   1. 2009Child Sexual Abuse Material is added as a second mandate of the National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings

      In 2009 the mandate is expanded by ministerial decree to include the topic child sexual abuse material, on which the Rapporteur publishes her first report in 2011. In that report, one of the recommendations of the Rapporteur is to expand the mandate to the entire terrain of sexual violence against children.

   2. 2012The mandate of Child Sexual Abuse Material is broadened to Sexual Violence against Children

      The government decides to comply with the request of the National Rapporteur in her First report on child sexual abuse material and widens her mandate to encompass sexual violence against children. Thereby the official name changes to 'National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Violence against Children'.

5. 2013

   1. 2013Legal codification of the Rapporteur

      As of November 15th, the independent position of the National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Violence against Children is preserved by a formal Dutch law. The 'Law on the National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Violence against Children' was adopted by Parliament with broad support.

6. 2018

   1. 2018Appointment Herman Bolhaar as the third National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Violence against Children

   2. 2022Appointment Conny Rijken as the fourth National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Violence against Children