A/RES/68/192
United Nations
Distr.: General
14 February 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 108
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2013
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/68/457)]
68/192. Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking
in persons
The General Assembly,
Reiterating its strong condemnation of trafficking in persons, especially
women and children, which constitutes an offence and a serious threat to human
dignity and physical integrity, human rights and development,
Reiterating its concern that, despite sustained measures taken at the
international, regional and national levels, trafficking in persons remains one of the
grave challenges facing the international community, which also impairs the
enjoyment of human rights and needs a more concerted collective and
comprehensive international response,
Bearing in mind that all States have an obligation to exercise due diligence to
prevent, investigate and punish perpetrators of trafficking in persons and to rescue
victims, as well as to provide for their protection, and that not doing so violates and
impairs or nullifies the enjoyment of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of
the victims,
Reaffirming the commitment made by world leaders at the Millennium
Summit, 1 the 2005 World Summit 2 and the high-level plenary meeting of the
General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, held in 2010, 3 to devise,
enforce and strengthen effective measures to combat and eliminate all forms of
trafficking in persons, to counter the demand for trafficked victims and to protect
the victims,
Recalling the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime, 4 the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention
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Resolution 55/2.
Resolution 60/1.
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Resolution 65/1.
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