A/RES/75/158
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 28
Advancement of women
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2020
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/75/471, para. 80)]
75/158.
Trafficking in women and girls
The General Assembly,
Reiterating its strong condemnation of human trafficking, especially trafficking
in women and children, which constitutes a serious crime and a grave offence to
human dignity and physical integrity, a violation and abuse of human rights and a
challenge to sustainable development and which requires (a) the implementation of a
comprehensive approach that includes partnerships and measures to prevent such
trafficking, to prosecute and punish the traffickers, to identify, protect and support the
victims of such trafficking and to intensify international cooperation and (b) a
criminal justice response proportionate to the serious nature of the offence,
Recalling all international conventions that deal specifically with and address
issues relevant to the problem of trafficking in women and girls, such as the United
Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 1 and the Protocols thereto,
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 and the Protocol against the Smuggling of
Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime, 3 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women 4 and the Optional Protocol thereto, 5 the Convention on
the Rights of the Child 6 and the Optional Protocol thereto on the sale of children, child
prostitution and child pornography, 7 and the Convention for the Suppression of the
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2225, No. 39574.
Ibid., vol. 2237, No. 39574.
Ibid., vol. 2241, No. 39574.
Ibid., vol. 1249, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 2131, No. 20378.
Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 2171, No. 27531.
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