A/RES/71/167
Trafficking in women and girls
Recognizing the crucial importance of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and
Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, which entered into
force on 25 December 2003 and which provided, for the first time, an
internationally agreed definition of the crime of trafficking in persons aimed at the
prevention of trafficking in persons, the protection of victims and the prosecution of
the perpetrators,
Welcoming the outcome of the eighth session of the Conference of the Parties
to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, held in
Vienna from 17 to 21 October 2016, at which the Conference decided to continue
the process to establish a review mechanism for the implementation of the
Convention and the Protocols thereto,
Reaffirming the provisions pertaining to trafficking in women and girls
contained in the outcome documents of relevant international conferences and
summits, in particular the strategic objective on the issue of trafficking contained in
the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted by t he Fourth World
Conference on Women, 9
Reaffirming also the commitment made by world leaders at the Millennium
Summit, the 2005 World Summit and the high-level plenary meeting of the General
Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals 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 the victims,
Welcoming the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 10
recognizing its integrated and indivisible nature, and acknowledging that the 2030
Agenda, inter alia, addresses the elimination of all forms of violence against all
women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual
and other types of exploitation; the eradication of forced labour, modern slavery,
human trafficking and child labour; and the ending of abuse, exploitation,
trafficking, all forms of violence against and torture of children,
Recognizing the importance of a revitalized global partnership to ensure the
implementation of the 2030 Agenda, including the implementation of the goals and
targets related to ending violence against women and girls and human trafficking,
and in this regard taking note with appreciation of Alliance 8.7 and of the Global
Partnership to End Violence Against Children,
Welcoming the adoption of the outcome document of the high-level plenary
meeting of the General Assembly on addressing large movements of refugees and
migrants, entitled the “New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants”, 11 in
which it recognized that refugees and migrants in large movements are at greater
risk of being trafficked and of being subjected to forced labour,
Welcoming in particular the efforts of States, United Nations bodies and
agencies and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to combat
trafficking in persons, especially women and children, including the implementation
of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons
adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 64/293 of 30 July 2010,
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Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
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Resolution 70/1.
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Resolution 71/1.
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