Improving the Coordination of Efforts Against Trafficking in Persons

A/RES/63/194View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 97 Crime prevention and criminal justice, published in 2009.

What other versions does this mandate have?

11 versions · 2007–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/228

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/228	Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons	6,466	80%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/228	Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons	6,012	70%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/186	Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons	5,163	81%Compare
2020	A/RES/74/176	Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons	4,647	72%Compare
2018	A/RES/72/195	Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons	3,805	70%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

12 reports · 2008–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2025	A/80/234	Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/228
2023	A/78/119	Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/186
2021	A/76/120	Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/74/176
2019	A/74/127	Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/72/195
2017	A/72/125	Implementation of the mandates of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme, with particular reference to the technical cooperation activities of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/68/192

What’s in this document?

14 operative paragraphs

Urges Member States that have not yet done so to consider taking measures to ratify or accede to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeError: Reference source not found and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime,Error: Reference source not found and to implement fully all aspects of those instruments;

Also urges Member States that have not yet done so to consider taking measures to ratify or accede to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography,Error: Reference source not found the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women¹¹ and the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery,Error: Reference source not found and to implement fully all aspects of those instruments;

¹¹United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.

Recognizes that broad international cooperation between Member States and relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations is essential for effectively countering the threat of trafficking in persons and other contemporary forms of slavery;

Welcomes the steps taken by human rights treaty bodies and the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, United Nations agencies and other concerned intergovernmental and governmental organizations, within their mandates, as well as civil society, to address the problem of trafficking in persons, and encourages them to continue doing so and to share their knowledge and best practices as widely as possible;

Calls upon Governments to continue their efforts to criminalize trafficking in persons in all its forms, including for the sexual exploitation of children, to take measures to criminalize child sex tourism, to condemn the practice of trafficking in persons, and to investigate, prosecute, condemn and penalize traffickers and intermediaries, while providing protection and assistance to the victims of trafficking with full respect for their human rights, and invites Member States to continue to support those United Nations agencies and international organizations that are actively involved in victim protection;

Encourages all stakeholders, including the private sector, to strengthen the coordination of efforts, including through the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons and regional as well as bilateral initiatives that promote cooperation and collaboration;

Welcomes the holding of the Vienna Forum to Fight Human Trafficking, from 13 to 15 February 2008, as a part of the awareness-raising efforts to fight human trafficking, and requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue consultations with Member States, to ensure that the Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking is carried out as a technical assistance project within the mandates agreed to by the relevant governing bodies and to brief Member States on the workplan of the Global Initiative, to be executed before the end of the project in 2009;

Recognizes the importance of comparable data disaggregated by types of trafficking in persons, sex and age, as well as of strengthening national capacity for the gathering, analysing and reporting of such data, and welcomes the efforts of the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons, drawing on the comparative advantages of the respective agencies, to share information, experiences and good practices on anti-trafficking activities of the partner agencies with Governments, other international and regional organizations, non-governmental organizations and other relevant bodies;

Acknowledges the important work on data collection and analysis conducted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime under its Global Programme against Trafficking in Human Beings, as well as by the International Organization for Migration through its global Counter-Trafficking Module database;

Takes note of the discussions at the thematic debate of the General Assembly on human trafficking, held in New York on 3 June 2008, which included a discussion on the advisability of a United Nations strategy or plan of action on preventing trafficking in persons and protecting and assisting victims of trafficking;

Calls upon the Secretary-General to collect the views of all stakeholders, including Member States and regional and international organizations, on how to achieve the full and effective coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons of all Member States, organizations, machineries, treaty bodies and all other partners within and outside the United Nations system, including civil society, and to ensure the full and effective implementation of all legal instruments relevant to trafficking in persons, particularly the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, without prejudice to the mandate of the working group established by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, and submit, no later than 1 June 2009, a background paper to the General Assembly at its sixty-third session;

Invites all Member States to accelerate the consideration of the advisability of a global plan of action on preventing trafficking in persons, prosecuting traffickers and protecting and assisting victims of trafficking, which would achieve the full and effective coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons of all Member States, organizations, machineries, treaty bodies and all other partners within and outside the United Nations system, including civil society, and ensure the full and effective implementation of all legal instruments relevant to trafficking in persons, particularly the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children;

Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to provide the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme with sufficient resources for the full implementation of its mandates on combating trafficking in persons, in conformity with its high priorities, and to provide adequate support to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, and invites Member States to provide voluntary contributions to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime for the purpose of providing assistance to Member States upon request;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution and on possible approaches to strengthen the coordination efforts against trafficking in persons of the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons.

Improving the Coordination of Efforts Against Trafficking in Persons

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