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the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World
Conference on Women, 9
8F
Reaffirming also the commitment made by world leaders at the Millennium
Summit, the 2005 World Summit and the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General
Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals to devise, enforce and strengthen
effective measures to combat and eliminate all forms of trafficking in persons to
counter the demand for trafficked victims and to protect the victims,
Welcoming the adoption of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to
Combat Trafficking in Persons 10 by the General Assembly on 30 July 2010,
9F
Welcoming also the resolutions on trafficking in persons, especially women
and children, adopted by the Human Rights Council, in particular resolution 11/3 of
17 June 2009 on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, 11 and
resolution 14/2 of 17 June 2010 entitled “Trafficking in persons, especially women
and children: regional and subregional cooperation in promoting a human
rights-based approach to combating trafficking in persons”, 12
10F
1F
Noting with appreciation the steps taken, including the reports of human rights
treaty bodies and the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on
trafficking in persons, especially women and children, the Special Rapporteur of the
Council on violence against women, its causes and consequences, the Special
Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, the Special
Rapporteur of the Council on the sale of children, child prostitution and child
pornography and the Special Rapporteur of the Council on contemporary forms of
slavery, including its causes and consequences, and United Nations agencies and
other concerned intergovernmental and governmental organizations, within their
existing mandates, as well as civil society, to address the serious crime of trafficking
in persons, and encourages them to continue doing so and to share their knowledge
and best practices as widely as possible,
Recalling the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons published by the United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in February 2009 and the attention paid in it to
the situation of trafficked women and girls, as well as other relevant reports of the
Office on trafficking in persons,
Taking note of the Vienna Forum to Fight Human Trafficking, held from 13 to
15 February 2008, within the framework of the United Nations Global Initiative to
Fight Human Trafficking, and of the thematic debates on the issue of trafficking in
persons, held on 3 June 2008 and 13 May 2009 within the framework of the General
Assembly,
Taking note also of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in
persons, especially women and children, and of the fact that part of her task is to
integrate a gender- and age-specific perspective throughout the work of her
mandate, inter alia, through the identification of gender- and age-specific
vulnerabilities in relation to the issue of trafficking in persons,
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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.
10
Resolution 64/293.
11
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/64/53),
chap. III, sect. A.
12
Ibid., Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53 and corrigendum (A/65/53 and Corr.1), chap. III, sect. A.
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