Trafficking in women and girls A/RES/73/146 Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 97), 23 the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111), 24 the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138), 25 the Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143), 26 the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181), 27 the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), 28 and the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189), of the International Labour Organization; 6. Urges Member States, the United Nations and other international, regional and subregional organizations, as well as civil society, including non -governmental organizations, the private sector and the media, to fully and effectively implement the relevant provisions of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons 29 and the activities outlined therein; 7. Welcomes the efforts of Governments, United Nations bodies and agencies and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to prevent and address the particular problem of trafficking in women and girls and encourages them to further enhance their efforts and cooperation, including by sharing their knowledge, technical expertise and best practices as widely as possible, and encourages Member States to strengthen cooperation among all relevant actors to identify and disrupt illicit financial flows stemming from trafficking in women and girls; 8. Takes note with appreciation of the outcome document of the Regional Ministerial Conference on Human Trafficking and Smuggling in the Horn of Africa, known as the Khartoum Declaration, and calls for its effective implementation, including through technical cooperation and capacity-building, by the United Nations and the international community; 9. Encourages the Commission on the Status of Women to consider addressing the needs of, inter alia, women and girls subjected to human trafficking at its sixty-third and sixty-fourth sessions, within the framework of the priority themes; 10. Encourages Member States, the United Nations system and other stakeholders to observe the World Day against Trafficking in Persons, in the context of the need to raise awareness of the situation of victims of hum an trafficking and for the promotion and protection of their rights; 11. Encourages the United Nations system to mainstream, as appropriate, the issue of human trafficking, especially trafficking in women and girls, into its broader policies and programmes aimed at addressing economic and social development, human rights, the rule of law, good governance, education, health and natural disaster and post-conflict reconstruction; 12. Welcomes the continued focus given by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) to ending violence against women and girls and to increasing women’s access to economic opportunities, as well as its work on building effective partnerships for the empowerment of women and girls, which will contribute to the efforts to combat human trafficking; 13. Calls upon Governments to intensify their efforts to prevent and address, with a view to eliminating, the demand that fosters the trafficking of women and girls for all forms of exploitation and in this regard to put in place or to enhance preventive __________________ 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 18-22183 Ibid., vol. 120, No. 1616. Ibid., vol. 362, No. 5181. Ibid., vol. 1015, No. 14862. Ibid., vol. 1120, No. 17426. Ibid., vol. 2115, No. 36794. Ibid., vol. 2133, No. 37245. Resolution 64/293. 7/13