A/RES/55/67
adopted on 21 August 1998 by the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination
and Protection of Minorities 11 at its fiftieth session,
Reaffirming the provisions of the outcomes of the World Conference on
Human Rights, held in Vienna from 14 to 25 June 1993, 12 the International
Conference on Population and Development, 13 the World Summit for Social
Development, 14 the Fourth World Conference on Women, 15 the twenty-third special
session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality,
development and peace for the twenty-first century”, held in New York from 5 to
9 June 2000, 16 and the twenty-fourth special session of the Assembly, entitled
“World Summit for Social Development and beyond: achieving social development
for all in a globalizing world”, held in Geneva from 26 June to 1 July 2000, 17 as well
as the Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment
of Offenders, held in Cairo from 29 April to 8 May 1995, 18 and the Tenth
Congress, 19 pertaining to the traffic in women and girls,
Welcoming the inclusion of gender-related crimes in the Rome Statute of the
International Criminal Court, adopted on 17 July 1998 by the United Nations
Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International
Criminal Court, 20
Noting the work of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime, in particular the elaboration of the Protocol
to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and
Children, 21
Reaffirming that sexual violence and trafficking in women and girls for
purposes of economic exploitation, sexual exploitation through prostitution and
other forms of sexual exploitation and contemporary forms of slavery are serious
violations of human rights,
Seriously concerned at the increasing number of women and girl children, in
particular from developing countries and from some countries with economies in
transition, who are being trafficked to developed countries, as well as within and
between regions and States, and acknowledging that the problem of trafficking also
includes the victimizing of boys,
Welcoming bilateral and regional cooperation mechanisms and initiatives to
address the problem of trafficking in women and girls,
11
Subsequently renamed the Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (see
Economic and Social Council decision 1999/256).
12
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
13
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
14
Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
15
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.
16
Resolution S-23/3, annex.
17
Resolution S-24/2, annex.
18
See A/CONF.169/16/Rev.1.
19
See Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Vienna,
10–17 April 2000: report prepared by the Secretariat (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.00.IV.8).
20
See A/CONF.183/9, art. 8.
21
Adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 55/25 of 15 November 2000 (annex II).
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