A/HRC/RES/14/2
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 June 2010
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fourteenth 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*
14/2
Trafficking in persons, especially women and children:
regional and subregional cooperation in promoting a human
rights-based approach to combating trafficking in persons
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 Council resolutions 8/12 of 18 June
2008, in which it extended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons,
especially women and children, and 11/3 of 17 June 2009, and recalling Council resolution
12/15 of 1 October 2009 on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of
human rights,
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, and reaffirming in particular the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress
and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the
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GE.10-14541
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its fourteenth session (A/HRC/14/37), chap. I.