Plan International - Girls' Rights Platform - Girls' rights are human rights: Positioning girls at the heart of the international agenda

United Nations A/RES/58/135 General Assembly Distr.: General 26 January 2004 Fifty-eighth session Agenda item 108 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2003 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/58/499)] 58/135. International cooperation in the fight against transnational organized crime: assistance to States in capacity-building with a view to facilitating the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 55/25 of 15 November 2000, by which it adopted the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, Recalling also its resolution 55/255 of 31 May 2001, by which it adopted the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, Recalling further its resolution 56/120 of 19 December 2001 on action against transnational organized crime: assistance to States in capacity-building with a view to facilitating the implementation of the Convention and the Protocols thereto, Reaffirming its deep concern at the impact of transnational organized crime on the political, social and economic stability and development of societies, Reaffirming that the adoption of the Convention and the Protocols thereto is a significant development in international criminal law and that they constitute important instruments for effective international cooperation against transnational organized crime, Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on 1. the ratification of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto; 1 _______________ 1 03 50268 E/CN.15/2003/5.