Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 1995, para. 130b

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[By Governments of countries of origin, transit and destination, regional and international organizations, as appropriate:] Take appropriate measures to address the root factors, including external factors, that encourage trafficking in women and girls for prostitution and other forms of commercialized sex, forced marriages and forced labour in order to eliminate trafficking in women, including by strengthening existing legislation with a view to providing better protection of the rights of women and girls and to punishing the perpetrators, through both criminal and civil measures;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Fourth World Conference on Women
Document type
Declaration / Confererence outcome document
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
1995
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Other
Reference
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995), para. 130b.
Paragraph focus
Violence against women
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Actions D3
Paragraph number
130b