A/RES/69/149
Trafficking in women and girls
prevention of trafficking in persons, the protection of victims and the prosecution of
the perpetrators,
Welcoming the outcome of the seventh session of the Conference of the Parties
to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, held in
Vienna from 6 to 10 October 2014, in which the Conference took a further step
towards identifying an appropriate mechanism or mechanisms to review the
implementation of the Convention and the Protocols thereto, 9
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 the Fourth World
Conference on Women, 10
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 in particular the efforts of States, United Nations bodies and
agencies and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to address the
problem of trafficking in persons, especially women and children, including 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,
Taking note of the adoption by the International Labour Conference, at its
103rd session, on 11 June 2014, of the Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention,
1930 (No. 29) 11 and Recommendation No. 203 on supplementary measures for the
effective suppression of forced labour, of the International Labour Organization,
which specify that measures to be taken for the prevention of forced or compulsory
labour shall include specific actions against trafficking in persons for the purposes
of forced or compulsory labour,
Welcoming, in the agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission on the
Status of Women at its fifty-eighth session, 12 the commitment of Governments to
take appropriate measures to raise public awareness of the issue of trafficking in
persons, particularly women and girls, including the factors that make women and
girls vulnerable to trafficking, to discourage, with a view to eliminating, the demand
that fosters all forms of exploitation, including sexual exploitation and forced
labour, and to review and adopt the laws, regulations and penalties necessary to deal
with this issue and publicize them to emphasize that trafficking is a serious crime,
Welcoming also the observance, on 30 July 2014, of the first World Day
against Trafficking in Persons, in the context of the need for raising awareness of
the situation of victims of human trafficking and for the promotion and protection of
their rights,
Noting with appreciation the steps taken, including the reports of human rights
treaty bodies and the Special Rapporteurs of the Human Rights Council on
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9
See CTOC/COP/2014/13, chap. I, sect. A, resolution 7/1.
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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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 39, No. 612.
12
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2014, Supplement No. 7 (E/2014/27), chap. I,
sect. A.
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