A/RES/80/228 Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons Goals on eliminating all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation, 2 on taking immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and trafficking in persons and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms, 3 and on ending abuse and exploitation of, trafficking in and all forms of violence against and torture of children, 4 Recalling also the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 5 as well as its supplementing Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, 6 which provided the definition of the crime of trafficking in persons, welcoming the twenty -fifth anniversary of the adoption of each instrument, and further acknowledging the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography 7 and the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery,8 Recalling further the adoption of the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), of the International Labour Organization, 9 which requires its members that ratify the Convention to take immediate and effective measures to secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour as a matter of urgency, and of the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), of the International Labour Organization, which recognizes that trafficking in persons for the purposes of forced or compulsory labour is the subject of growing international concern, Recalling the adoption of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons by the General Assembly in its resolution 64/293 of 30 July 2010, and underlining the importance of its full implementation, Reaffirming that the Global Plan of Action was developed: (a) To promote universal ratification of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, as well as other relevant international instruments that address trafficking in persons, and to reinforce the implementation of existing instruments against trafficking in persons, (b) To help Member States to reinforce their political commitments and legal obligations to prevent and combat trafficking in persons, (c) To promote comprehensive, coordinated and consistent responses at the national, regional and international levels to counter trafficking in persons, (d) To promote a human rights-based, gender- and age-sensitive approach in addressing all factors that make people vulnerable to trafficking in persons and strengthening the criminal justice response, which are necessary to prevent trafficking in persons, protect its victims and prosecute its perpetrators, _______________ 2 Target 5.2. Target 8.7. 4 Target 16.2. 5 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2225, No. 39574. 6 Ibid., vol. 2237, No. 39574. 7 Ibid., vol. 2171, No. 27531. 8 Ibid., vol. 266, No. 3822. 9 Ibid., vol. 2133, No. 37245. 3 2/14 25-20946