Trafficking in women and girls 2010, para. 8

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Also calls upon Governments to take appropriate measures to address the factors that increase vulnerability to being trafficked, including poverty and gender inequality, as well as other factors that encourage the particular problem of trafficking in women and girls for prostitution and other forms of commercialized sex, forced marriage, forced labour and organ removal, in order to prevent and eliminate such trafficking, including by strengthening existing legislation with a view to providing better protection of the rights of women and girls and to punishing perpetrators, including public officials engaging in or facilitating human trafficking, through, as appropriate, criminal and/or civil measures;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2010
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OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Trafficking in women and girls (2010), A/RES/65/190, OP 8.
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OP
Paragraph number
8