United Nations
A/RES/61/180
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 March 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 98
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2006
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/61/444)]
61/180. Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking
in persons
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 55/25 of 15 November 2000, 58/137 of 22 December
2003, 59/166 of 20 December 2004 and other relevant General Assembly resolutions
on trafficking in persons and other contemporary forms of slavery,
Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 2006/27 of 27 July
2006 on strengthening international cooperation in preventing and combating
trafficking in persons and protecting victims of such trafficking, and previous
Council resolutions on trafficking in persons that have emerged from the
Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice,
Recalling further the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime 1 and, in particular, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish
Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United
Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2 the Optional Protocol
to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child
prostitution and child pornography 3 and the Supplementary Convention on the
Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to
Slavery, 4
Welcoming the progress achieved by the Conference of the Parties to the
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime in accordance
with article 32 of the Convention, and by the Working Group on Contemporary
Forms of Slavery in accordance with Economic and Social Council decisions
16 (LVI) and 17 (LVI) of 17 May 1974 and 1980/127 of 2 May 1980,
Recognizing that contemporary forms of slavery violate human rights and that
trafficking in persons impairs the enjoyment of human rights, continues to pose a
serious challenge to humanity and requires a concerted international response,
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1
Resolution 55/25, annex I.
Ibid., annex II.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2171, No. 27531.
4
Ibid., vol. 266, No. 3822.
2
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