A/HRC/RES/32/3
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 July 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-second session
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 30 June 2016
32/3.
Trafficking in persons, especially women and children:
protecting victims of trafficking and persons at risk of
trafficking, especially women and children in conflict and
post-conflict situations
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming all previous General Assembly and Human Rights Council resolutions
on the problem of trafficking in persons, especially women and children,
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, and reaffirming 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,
Reaffirming further the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) and the Protocol
of 2014 thereto, the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) and the
Recommendation on Supplementary Measures for the Effective Suppression of Forced
Labour, 2014 (No. 203) of the International Labour Organization,
Recalling the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189) and the Domestic
Workers Recommendation, 2011 (No. 201) of the International Labour Organization,
GE.16-12517(E)