Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons
A/RES/70/179
Recalling further Human Rights Council resolution 23/5 of 13 June 2013,
entitled “Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: efforts to combat
human trafficking in supply chains of businesses”, 10 and other relevant resolutions
of the Council on trafficking in persons,
Taking note of the reference to preventing and countering trafficking in
persons and the victim-oriented approach in the context of addressing trafficking in
persons in the Doha Declaration on Integrating Crime Prevention and Criminal
Justice into the Wider United Nations Agenda to Address Social and Economic
Challenges and to Promote the Rule of Law at the National and International Levels,
and Public Participation, adopted by the Thirteenth United Nations Congress on
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, held in Doha fro m 12 to 19 April 2015, 11
Recalling the adoption of the Declaration of the High-level Dialogue on
International Migration and Development, 12 held on 3 and 4 October 2013, and the
commitment by Member States, inter alia, to prevent and combat trafficking in
persons, to protect victims of trafficking, stressing the need to establish or upgrade,
as appropriate, national and regional anti-human trafficking policies, and to
reinforce cooperation on prevention, the prosecution of traffickers and the
protection of victims of trafficking,
Recognizing the important role of the Inter-Agency Coordination Group
against Trafficking in Persons in fostering coordination and cooperation in the
global fight against trafficking in persons, in particular the United Nations Offi ce on
Drugs and Crime, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the
United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and
the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), the International Labour Organization,
the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Development
Programme, the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization and other intergovernmental organizations,
within their existing mandates,
Recognizing also that the Inter-Agency Coordination Group, within its
mandate, contributes to the implementation of the Global Plan of Action, and taking
note with appreciation of the activities of the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime as coordinator of the Inter-Agency Coordination Group,
Emphasizing the central role of the work of the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime in the global fight against trafficking in perso ns, particularly in
providing technical assistance to Member States, upon their request, to implement
the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Wo men
and Children, by making use of existing capacity-building tools, lessons learned
from Member States and expertise available in other international organizations,
Recognizing the need to continue to foster a global partnership against
trafficking in persons and the need to continue to work towards an enhanced
comprehensive and coordinated approach to prevent and combat trafficking and to
protect and assist victims of trafficking in persons through the appropriate national,
regional and international mechanisms,
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/68/53),
chap. V, sect. A.
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Resolution 70/174, annex.
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Resolution 68/4.
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