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Convention, including the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in
Persons, Especially Women and Children, by facilitating the development and
exchange of relevant information, programmes and practices, and by cooperating
with relevant international and regional organizations and non-government
organizations, and recognizing also that each State party shall provide the
Conference of the Parties with information on its programmes, plans and practices,
as well as legislative and administrative measures to implement the Convention,
Taking note of the decisions of the eleventh summit of the Assembly of Heads
of State and Government of the African Union, held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on
30 June and 1 July 2008, 7 and of the Fifteenth Summit Conference of Heads of State
and Government of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, held in Sharm
el-Sheikh from 11 to 16 July 2009, 8 on fostering United Nations global action
against human trafficking, the declaration of the European Union Ministerial
Conference on the theme “Towards Global European Union Action against
Trafficking in Human Beings”, held in Brussels on 19 and 20 October 2009, and
discussions at other subregional, regional and global forums 9 on the need to unite
and coordinate efforts in combating trafficking in persons at the international level,
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Recognizing the importance of bilateral, subregional, regional and
international cooperation mechanisms and initiatives, including information
exchanges on good practices, of Governments and intergovernmental and
non-governmental organizations to address the problem of trafficking in persons,
especially women and children,
Recognizing also that broad international cooperation between Member States
and relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations is essential for
effectively countering the threat of trafficking in persons and other contemporary
forms of slavery,
Recognizing further the important role of the United Nations entities, such as
the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the
International Labour Organization, the International Organization for Migration and
other intergovernmental organizations in ensuring effective and comprehensive
coordination in the global fight against human trafficking,
Recognizing the need to continue fostering a global partnership against
trafficking in persons and other contemporary forms of slavery,
Recognizing also 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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A/63/515, annex I, decision Assembly/AU/Dec.207 (XI).
See A/63/965-S/2009/514, annex.
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For example, the Regional Ministerial Conference on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and
Related Transnational Crime, held in Bali, Indonesia, from 26 to 28 February 2002; the European
Union-Africa Ministerial Conference on Migration and Development, held in Tripoli on 22 and
23 November 2006; the Third World Congress against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents,
held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 25 to 28 November 2008; the international conference on the theme
“Human trafficking at the crossroads”, held in Manama on 2 and 3 March 2009; and the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe Alliance against Trafficking in Persons conference on the prevention
of modern slavery, held in Vienna on 14 and 15 September 2009.
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