United Nations A/RES/61/144 General Assembly Distr.: General 1 February 2007 Sixty-first session Agenda item 61 (a) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2006 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/61/438)] 61/144. Trafficking in women and girls The General Assembly, Recalling all international conventions that deal specifically with the problem of trafficking in women and girls, such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1 and the Optional Protocol thereto, 2 the Convention on the Rights of the Child 3 and the Optional Protocol thereto on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, 4 the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others, 5 the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 6 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 7 and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 8 as well as previous resolutions of the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the Commission on Human Rights on the issue, Reaffirming the provisions pertaining to trafficking in women and girls contained in the outcome documents of relevant international conferences and summits, in particular the strategic objective on the issue of trafficking contained in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women, 9 _______________ 1 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378. Ibid., vol. 2131, No. 20378. 3 Ibid., vol. 1577, No. 27531. 4 Ibid., vol. 2171, No. 27531. 5 Ibid., vol. 96, No. 1342. 6 Resolution 55/25, annex I. 7 Ibid., annex II. 8 Ibid., annex III. 9 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II. 2 06-50307