Traffic in Women and Girls

A/RES/50/167View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 107 Advancement of women, published in 1996.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 1995–2001

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/55/67

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2001	A/RES/55/67	Traffic in women and girls	2,110	40%Compare
1999	A/RES/53/116	Traffic in women and girls	1,750	36%Compare
1998	A/RES/52/98	Traffic in women and girls	1,305	38%Compare
1997	A/RES/51/66	Traffic in women and girls	1,272	29%Compare
1996	A/RES/50/167	Traffic in women and girls	1,116	27%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

18 subjects

Advisory Services Crime Prevention Girls Human Rights Illicit Traffic Institution Building International Days International Instruments Legal Aid Prostitution Rehabilitation Repatriation Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Slavery Standards Technical Cooperation Training Programmes Women

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on the traffic in women and girls;¹⁵

¹⁵A/50/369.

Appeals to Governments to take appropriate measures to address the root factors, including external factors, that encourage trafficking in women and girls for prostitution and other forms of commercialized sex, forced marriages and forced labour, so as to eliminate trafficking in women, including by strengthening existing legislation with a view to providing better protection of the rights of women and girls and to punishing perpetrators, through both criminal and civil measures;

Invites Governments to combat trafficking in women and children through nationally and internationally coordinated measures, at the same time establishing or strengthening institutions for the protection of the victims of trafficking of women and children, and to ensure for victims the necessary assistance, including legal support services that are linguistically and culturally accessible, for their full protection, treatment and rehabilitation;

Also invites Governments to consider the development of standard minimum rules for the humanitarian treatment of trafficked persons, consistent with human rights standards;

Urges concerned Governments to support comprehensive, practical approaches by the international community to assist women and children victims of transnational trafficking to return home and be reintegrated into their home societies;

Encourages Member States to consider signing and ratifying or acceding to the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others,¹⁶ international agreements on the suppression of slavery and other relevant international instruments;

¹⁶Resolution 317 (IV), annex.

Invites the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in addressing the obstacles to the realization of the human rights of women, in particular, through his contacts with the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women and the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, to include the traffic in women and girls among his priority concerns;

Also encourages the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat to include the traffic in women and girls in its programme of work under its advisory, training and information services, with a view to providing assistance to member Governments, upon their request, in instituting preventive measures against trafficking through education and appropriate information campaigns;

Requests the Commission on Human Rights to encourage the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery of the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities to continue to address the issue of the traffic in women and girls under its draft programme of action on the traffic in persons and the exploitation of the prostitution of others;¹⁷

¹⁷See E/CN.4/Sub.2/1995/28/Add.1.

Requests the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to consider appropriate follow-up to the Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders on measures to address the problem of trafficking in women and children and to submit a report thereon to the Secretary-General, through the usual channels, for inclusion in his report to the General Assembly;

Invites relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to provide advisory services to Governments, upon their request, in planning and setting up rehabilitation programmes for victims of trafficking and in training personnel who will be directly involved in the implementation of these programmes;

Decides to focus the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December 1996, on the problem of trafficking in human persons, especially women and children, and to devote one meeting of the fifty-first session of the General Assembly to the discussion of this problem;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-first session, under the item entitled "Advancement of women", a comprehensive report on the implementation of the present resolution, with due regard for possible measures to improve the reporting procedure.

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