A/RES/77/236
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 January 2023
Seventy-seventh session
Agenda item 109
Crime prevention and criminal justice
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 15 December 2022
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/77/464, para. 31)]
77/236.
Strengthening and promoting effective measures and international
cooperation on organ donation and transplantation to prevent and
combat trafficking in persons for the purpose of organ removal
and trafficking in human organs
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations
and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1
Recalling the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 2 and recognizing its
integrated and indivisible nature,
Reaffirming the commitments by Member States to take immediate and effective
measures to eradicate all forms of trafficking in persons,
Recalling its resolutions 59/156 of 20 December 2004, entitled “Preventing,
combating and punishing trafficking in human organs”, 73/189 of 17 December 2018,
entitled “Strengthening and promoting effective measures and international
cooperation on organ donation and transplantation to prevent and co mbat trafficking
in persons for the purpose of organ removal and trafficking in human organs”, 74/176
of 18 December 2019, entitled “Improving the coordination of efforts against
trafficking in persons”, 75/195 of 16 December 2020, entitled “Strengthening and
promoting effective measures and international cooperation on organ donation and
transplantation to prevent and combat trafficking in persons for the purpose of organ
removal and trafficking in human organs”, and 76/186 of 16 December 2021, entitled
“Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons”, as well as
Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice resolutions 23/2 of 16 May
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 70/1.
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