A/RES/77/194
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 December 2022
Seventy-seventh session
Agenda item 26
Advancement of women
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 15 December 2022
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/77/456, para. 61)]
77/194.
Trafficking in women and girls
The General Assembly,
Reiterating its strong condemnation of trafficking in persons, 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 ri ghts
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 effectively identify, pro tect and
support the victims of such trafficking and to intensify international cooperation and
other prevention efforts and (b) a criminal justice response proportionate to the
serious nature of the offence,
Recalling all international conventions that deal specifically with or 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
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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.
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