A/HRC/RES/23/5
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 June 2013
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-third session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council∗
23/5.
Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: efforts to
combat human trafficking in supply chains of businesses
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming all previous resolutions on trafficking in persons, especially women and
children, in particular General Assembly resolutions 63/156 of 18 December 2008 and
64/178 of 18 December 2009, and Human Rights Council resolutions 8/12 of 18 June 2008,
11/3 of 17 June 2009, 14/2 of 23 June 2010, 17/1 of 6 July 2011 and 20/1 of 5 July 2012,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights,
Reaffirming the principles set forth in relevant human rights instruments and
declarations, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocol
thereto on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the
Optional Protocol thereto,
Reaffirming also the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime and the Protocols thereto, in particular the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish
Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime,
Recalling the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) and the Worst Forms of
Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) of the International Labour Organization, and
∗
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report
of the Council on its twenty-third session (A/HRC/23/2), chap. I.
GE.13-14887