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Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons
against Transnational Organized Crime, 5 which provided the definition of the crime
of trafficking in persons, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of
the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography 6 and the
Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and
Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, 7
Recognizing the significance of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to
Combat Trafficking in Persons, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution
64/293 of 30 July 2010, and underlining the importance of its full implementation,
Reaffirming that the Global Plan of Action was developed:
(a) To promote universal ratification of the United Nations Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and
Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, as well as other
relevant international instruments that address trafficking in persons, and to
reinforce the implementation of existing instruments against trafficking in persons,
(b) To help Member States reinforce their political commitments and legal
obligations to prevent and combat trafficking in persons,
(c) To promote comprehensive, coordinated and consistent responses at the
national, regional and international levels to counter trafficking in persons,
(d) To promote a human rights-based, gender- and age-sensitive approach in
addressing all factors that make people vulnerable to trafficking in persons and in
strengthening the criminal justice response, which are necessary to prevent
trafficking in persons, protect victims and prosecute perpetrators,
(e) To raise awareness within the United Nations system and also among
States and other stakeholders, such as the private sector, civil society and the
international and national mass media, and the public at large,
(f) To foster cooperation and coordination among all relevant stakeholders,
including Member States, international organizations, civil society organizations
and the private sector, and within various entities of the United Nations system,
taking into account existing best practices and lessons learned,
Recalling its resolutions 61/180 of 20 December 2006, 64/178 of 18 December
2009 and 67/190 of 20 December 2012 on improving the coordination of efforts
against trafficking in persons and other relevant General Assembly resolutions on
trafficking in persons, 8
Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 2013/41 of 25 July
2013 on the implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat
Trafficking in Persons and previous Council resolutions on trafficking in persons,
Recalling further Human Rights Council resolution 23/5 of 13 June 2013,
entitled “Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: efforts to combat
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5
Ibid., vol. 2237, No. 39574.
Ibid., vol. 2171, No. 27531.
7
Ibid., vol. 266, No. 3822.
8
Resolutions 55/67, 58/137, 59/166, 61/144, 63/156 and 63/194.
6
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