A/HRC/RES/20/1
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 July 2012
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twentieth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
20/1.
Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: access to
effective remedies for trafficked persons and their right to an effective
remedy for human rights violations
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming all previous resolutions on the problem of trafficking in persons,
especially women and children, in particular General Assembly resolutions 63/156 of 18
December 2008 and 64/178 of 18 December 2009, and Human Rights Council resolutions
8/12 of 18 June 2008, 11/3 of 17 June 2009, 14/2 of 23 June 2010 and 17/1 of 6 July 2011,
in which the Council extended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in
persons, especially women and children,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights,
Reaffirming the principles set forth in relevant human rights instruments and
declarations, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocol
thereto on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the
Optional Protocol thereto,
Recalling the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
and the Protocols thereto, in particular the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish
Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and the Convention for the
Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others,
GE.12-15467
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its twentieth session (A/HRC/20/2), chap. I.