United Nations
A/RES/57/176
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 January 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 102
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/57/549)]
57/176. Trafficking in women and girls
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the principles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, 1 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women, 2 the International Covenants on Human Rights, 3 the Convention against
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 4 the
Convention on the Rights of the Child 5 and the Declaration on the Elimination of
Violence against Women, 6
Welcoming the adoption by the General Assembly of the two Optional
Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 7 in particular the Optional
Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, which
entered into force on 18 January 2002,
Welcoming also the adoption by the General Assembly of the Optional
Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women, 8 which entered into force on 22 December 2000,
Recalling all previous resolutions on the problem of trafficking in women and
girls adopted by the General Assembly, the Commission on the Status of Women,
the Commission on Human Rights and the Commission on Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice, as well as the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in
Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others, 9 the conclusions on
violence against women adopted on 13 March 1998 by the Commission on the
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 34/180, annex.
3
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
4
Resolution 39/46, annex.
5
Resolution 44/25, annex.
6
See resolution 48/104.
7
See resolution 54/263.
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Resolution 54/4, annex.
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Resolution 317 (IV).
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