United Nations General Assembly A/RES/59/166 Distr.: General 10 February 2005 Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 98 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2004 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/59/496)] 59/166. Trafficking in women and girls The General Assembly, Recalling all previous resolutions on the problem of trafficking in women and girls adopted by the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights, including their reaffirmation of the principles set forth in relevant human rights instruments and declarations, as well as the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, 1 the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 2 and the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others, 3 Welcoming the entry into force of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 4 on 29 September 2003 and of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 5 on 25 December 2003 and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 6 on 28 January 2004, Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 7 in particular the resolve expressed by Heads of State and Government to intensify efforts to fight transnational organized crime in all its dimensions, including trafficking in human beings, 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 _______________ 1 Resolution 54/263, annex II. Resolution 54/4, annex. 3 Resolution 317 (IV), annex. 4 Resolution 55/25, annex I. 5 Ibid., annex II. 6 Ibid., annex III. 7 See resolution 55/2. 2 04-48622