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Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons
exploitation, 2 on taking immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour,
end modern slavery and trafficking in persons and secure the prohibition and
elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child
soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms, 3 and on ending abuse and
exploitation of, trafficking in and all forms of violence against and torture of children, 4
Recalling also the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime, 5 as well as its supplementing Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish
Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, 6 which provided the definition
of the crime of trafficking in persons, welcoming the twentieth anniversary of the
entry into force of each instrument, and further acknowledging the Optional Protocol
to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitutio n
and child pornography 7 and the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of
Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, 8
Taking note of the adoption of the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention,
1999 (No. 182), of the International Labour Organization, 9 which requires its members
that ratify the Convention to take immediate and effective measures to secure the
prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour as a matter of urgency,
and of the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), of the
International Labour Organization, which recognizes that trafficking in persons for
the purposes of forced or compulsory labour is the subject of growing international
concern,
Recalling the adoption of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat
Trafficking in Persons by the General Assembly in its resolution 64/293 of 30 July
2010, and underlining the importance of its full implementation,
Reaffirming that the Global Plan of Action was developed:
(a) To promote universal ratification of the United Nations Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and
Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, as well as other
relevant international instruments that address trafficking in persons, and to reinforce
the implementation of existing instruments against trafficking in persons,
(b) To help Member States to reinforce their political commitments and legal
obligations to prevent and combat trafficking in persons,
(c) To promote comprehensive, coordinated and consistent responses at the
national, regional and international levels to counter trafficking in persons,
(d) To promote a human rights-based, gender- and age-sensitive approach in
addressing all factors that make people vulnerable to trafficking in persons and
strengthening the criminal justice response, which are necessary to prevent trafficking
in persons, protect its victims and prosecute its perpetrators,
(e) To raise awareness within the United Nations system and also among
States and other stakeholders, such as the private sector, civil society and the
international and national mass media, and the public at large,
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Target 5.2.
Target 8.7.
Target 16.2.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2225, No. 39574.
Ibid., vol. 2237, No. 39574.
Ibid., vol. 2171, No. 27531.
Ibid., vol. 266, No. 3822.
Ibid., vol. 2133, No. 37245.
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