United Nations
A/RES/63/194
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2009
Sixty-third session
Agenda item 97
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2008
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/63/431)]
63/194. Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking
in persons
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 61/180 of 20 December 2006 on improving the
coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons and other relevant General
Assembly resolutions on trafficking in persons and other contemporary forms of
slavery,
Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 2008/33 of 25 July
2008 on strengthening coordination of the United Nations and other efforts in
fighting trafficking in persons and previous Council resolutions on trafficking in
persons,
Recalling further the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime 1 and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in
Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2 the Optional Protocol to the
Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography 3 and the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery,
the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, 4
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Welcoming the progress made at the fourth session of the Conference of the
Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime,
and taking note of the decisions of the Conference on the issue of trafficking in
persons,
Recognizing that trafficking in persons impairs the enjoyment of human rights,
continues to pose a serious challenge to humanity and requires a concerted
international response,
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2225, No. 39574.
Ibid., vol. 2237, No. 39574.
3
Ibid., vol. 2171, No. 27531.
4
Ibid., vol. 266, No. 3822.
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