43. At the 15th meeting, on 22 March, the representative of Australia orally revised the fifth preambular paragraph of the draft resolution by replacing the word "Welcoming" by the words "Reaffirming the importance of". 44. At the same meeting, the Commission adopted the draft resolution, as orally revised (see chap. I, sect. C, Commission resolution 40/3). Traffic in women and girls 45. At the 12th meeting, on 20 March, the representative of the Philippines, on behalf of Argentina, 69/ Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, 69/ Fiji, 69/ Ghana, 69/ Indonesia, Israel, 69/ Nigeria, 69/ Panama, 69/ the Philippines and Thailand, introduced a draft resolution (E/CN.6/1996/L.5) entitled "Traffic in women and girls". Subsequently, Angola, Bangladesh, 69/ Belgium, Benin, 69/ Burkina Faso, 69/ Cameroon, 69/ the Congo, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia, 69/ France, Gabon, 69/ Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, 69/ Malaysia, Mali, Peru, 69/ the Russian Federation, Senegal, 69/ South Africa, 69/ Switzerland, 69/ Togo, Viet Nam 69/ and Zambia 69/ joined in sponsoring the draft resolution, which read as follows: "The Commission on the Status of Women, "Reaffirming its faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women, enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, as well as the principles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International Covenants on Human Rights, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, "Recalling General Assembly resolutions 49/166 of 23 December 1994 and 50/167 of 22 December 1995, Commission on the Status of Women resolution 39/6 of 29 March 1995 and Commission on Human Rights resolutions 1994/45 of 4 March 1994 and 1995/25 of 3 March 1995 on the traffic in women and girls, "Concurring with the conclusions and recommendations made by recent international conferences, including the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen, the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo and the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, on the human rights of women and girl children, in particular with respect to the violation of those rights by their being forced into sexually or economically oppressive and exploitative situations for the profit of recruiters, traffickers and crime syndicates, as well as into other illegal activities related to trafficking, such as forced domestic labour, false marriages, child marriages, clandestine employment and false adoption, "Acknowledging that the problem of trafficking also victimizes young boys, "Welcoming the decision of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in its resolution 3/2 of 6 May 1994 to consider the international traffic in minors at its fourth session, in the context of its discussion on the question of organized transnational crime, and the -55-