Trafficking in women and girls
A/RES/71/167
(Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111), 24 the Minimum Age
Convention, 1973 (No. 138), 25 the Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions)
Convention, 1975 (No. 143), 26 the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997
(No. 181), 27 the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182), 28 and the
Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189), of the International Labour
Organization;
6.
Urges Member States, the United Nations and other international,
regional and subregional organizations, as well as civil society, including
non-governmental organizations, the private sector and the media, to fully and
effectively implement the relevant provisions of the United Nations Global Plan of
Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons 29 and the activities outlined therein;
7.
Welcomes the efforts of Governments, United Nations bodies and
agencies and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to prevent and
address the particular problem of trafficking in women and girls, and encourages
them to further enhance their efforts and cooperation, including by sharing their
knowledge, technical expertise and best practices as widely as possible;
8.
Takes note with appreciation of the outcome document of the Regional
Ministerial Conference on Human Trafficking and Smuggling in the Horn of Afri ca,
known as the Khartoum Declaration, and calls for its effective implementation,
including through technical cooperation and capacity-building, by the United
Nations and the international community;
9.
Encourages the Commission on the Status of Women to consider the
issue of trafficking in women and girls at its sixty-first session, within the
framework of the priority theme for 2017, “Women’s economic empowerment in the
changing world of work”;
10. Encourages Member States, the United Nations system and other
stakeholders to observe the World Day against Trafficking in Persons, in the context
of the need to raise awareness of the situation of victims of trafficking in persons
and for the promotion and protection of their rights;
11. Encourages the United Nations system to mainstream, as appropriate, the
issue of trafficking in persons, especially women and girls, into its broader policies
and programmes aimed at addressing economic and social development, human
rights, the rule of law, good governance, education, health and natural disaster and
post-conflict reconstruction;
12. Welcomes the continued focus given by the United Nations Entity for
Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN -Women) to ending violence
against women and to increasing women’s access to economic opportunities, as well
as its work on building effective partnerships for the empowerment of women,
which will contribute to the efforts to combat trafficking in persons;
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24
Ibid., vol. 362, No. 5181.
Ibid., vol. 1015, No. 14862.
26
Ibid., vol. 1120, No. 17426.
27
Ibid., vol. 2115, No. 36794.
28
Ibid., vol. 2133, No. 37245.
29
Resolution 64/293.
25
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