Draft outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the appraisal
of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons
A/RES/71/319
2.
We recall and reaffirm our commitments to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, 3 recognizing its integrated and indivisible nature and acknowledging
that the 2030 Agenda includes commitments that relate to combating all forms of
trafficking in persons, recognize the importance of partnerships in this regard, and
emphasize that the 2030 Agenda and the Global Plan of Action are mutually
reinforcing.
3.
We reaffirm our commitment to address the social, economic, cultural,
political and other factors that make people vulnerable to trafficking in persons,
such as poverty, unemployment, inequality, humanitarian emergencies, including
armed conflicts and natural disasters, sexual violence, gender discrimination, social
exclusion and marginalization, as well as a culture of tolerance towards violence
against women, youth and children. We reiterate our commitment to promote
education and awareness-raising campaigns to prevent trafficking in persons. We
welcome the designation of 30 July as the World Day against Trafficking in
Persons. 4
4.
We reiterate our strong condemnation of trafficking in persons, especially
women and children, which continues to pose a serious challenge to humanity,
violates and impairs the enjoyment of human rights and fu ndamental freedoms and
constitutes a crime and a serious threat to human dignity and physical integrity, and
a challenge to sustainable development, and which requires the implementation of a
comprehensive approach that includes partnerships and measures to prevent such
trafficking, to prosecute and punish the traffickers and to identify and protect the
victims, as well as a criminal justice response commensurate to the serious nature of
the crime. In this regard, we encourage the development of policies, p rogrammes
and national strategies to prevent and combat trafficking in persons.
5.
We reaffirm the crucial importance of universal ratification of the United
Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 5 and the Protocol to
Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and
Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime, 6 taking into consideration the central role of those instruments in
the fight against trafficking in persons, and urge Member States that have not yet
done so to consider ratifying or acceding to the Convention and the Protocol to
Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and
Children, as a matter of priority. We urge States parties to those instruments to
implement them fully and effectively, and welcome the decision of the Conference
of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime to continue the process of establishing a mechanism for the review of the
implementation of the Convention and the Protocols thereto.
6.
We also reaffirm the importance of universal ratification and implementation
of other relevant international instruments that address trafficking in persons.
7.
We reaffirm our recognition that “trafficking in persons” shall mean the
recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of
the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of
deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or
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Resolution 70/1.
See resolution 68/192.
5
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2225, No. 39574.
6
Ibid., vol. 2237, No. 39574.
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