A/RES/73/189
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 109
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2018
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/590)]
73/189.
Strengthening and promoting effective measures and international
cooperation on organ donation and transplantation to prevent and
combat trafficking in persons for the purpose of organ removal
and trafficking in human organs
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations
and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1
Recalling the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 2 and recognizing its
integrated and indivisible nature,
Reaffirming the commitments by Member States to take immediate and effective
measures to eradicate all forms of trafficking in persons,
Recalling its resolutions 59/156 of 20 December 2004, entitled “Preventing,
combating and punishing trafficking in human organs”, 71/322 of 8 September 2017,
entitled “Strengthening and promoting effective measures and international
cooperation on organ donation and transplantation to pre vent and combat trafficking
in persons for the purpose of organ removal and trafficking in human organs ”, and
72/195 of 19 December 2017, entitled “Improving the coordination of efforts against
trafficking in persons”, as well as Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal
Justice resolutions 23/2 of 16 May 2014 3 and 25/1 of 27 May 2016 4 on preventing
and combating trafficking in human organs and trafficking in persons for the purpose
of organ removal,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 70/1.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2014, Supplement No. 10 (E/2014/30),
chap. I, sect. D.
Ibid., 2016, Supplement No. 10 (E/2016/30), chap. I, sect. D.
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