United Nations
A/RES/64/293
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 August 2010
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 104
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 30 July 2010
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/64/L.64)]
64/293. United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat
Trafficking in Persons
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
and reaffirming its role under the Charter, including on issues related to
development, peace and security and human rights,
Reiterating its strong condemnation of trafficking in persons, especially
women and children, which constitutes a serious threat to human dignity, human
rights and development,
Recognizing that poverty, unemployment, lack of socio-economic opportunities,
gender-based violence, discrimination and marginalization are some of the
contributing factors that make persons vulnerable to trafficking in persons,
Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted on 8 September
2000, 1 in which Member States resolved to intensify efforts to fight transnational
crime in all its dimensions, including trafficking in human beings,
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Recalling also the 2005 World Summit Outcome adopted by the General
Assembly on 16 September 2005, 2 noting that trafficking in persons continues to
pose a serious challenge to humanity and requires a concerted international
response, and urging all States to devise, enforce and strengthen effective measures
to combat and eliminate all forms of trafficking in persons in order to counter the
demand for trafficked victims and to protect them,
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Reaffirming its resolution 55/25 of 15 November 2000, by which it adopted the
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 3 and the Protocol
to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and
Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime, 4 and recalling other related conventions and instruments, such as
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1
See resolution 55/2.
See resolution 60/1.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2225, No. 39574.
4
Ibid., vol. 2237, No. 39574.
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