Improving the Coordination of Efforts Against Trafficking in Persons

A/RES/61/180View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 98 Crime prevention and criminal justice, published in 2007.

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?

19 operative paragraphs

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, and invites them to foster a global partnership against trafficking in persons and other contemporary forms of slavery, with a view to eliminating all contemporary forms of slavery and trafficking in persons and protecting and assisting their victims;

Underlines the importance of bilateral, subregional and regional partnerships, initiatives and actions, and encourages their development;

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 these 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 Women,⁸ 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 these instruments;

⁸United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.

Recognizes the need to arrive at a better understanding of what constitutes demand and how to combat it, decides to strengthen efforts to counter the demand for victims of trafficking in persons, and encourages Member States to consider adopting legislative or other measures, such as educational, social or cultural measures, to discourage and reduce the demand that fosters all forms of exploitation of persons, especially women and children, and that thus promotes trafficking;

Also recognizes the need to address the factors that make persons, especially women and children, vulnerable to trafficking, including poverty, underdevelopment and lack of equal opportunities, lack of equal access to education and lack of equal access to the labour market, and encourages Member States to adopt measures, including through bilateral or multilateral cooperation, to counter those factors;

Invites Member States to give necessary guidelines and provide training and adequate resources to law enforcement bodies and other relevant authorities to combat trafficking in persons, to care for the rights and needs of the victims and to consider establishing coordination and cooperation mechanisms at the national and international levels on extradition, mutual legal assistance and sharing police intelligence information, as appropriate, taking into account the information and communication tools offered by Interpol;

Also invites Member States to improve and promote the collection, compilation and dissemination of statistics and indicators on trafficking in persons, including by strengthening bilateral, regional and international cooperation and coordination;

Further invites Member States to take all appropriate measures to promote the physical, cognitive and psychological recovery, rehabilitation and social integration of human beings who have become victims of exploitation, violence and abuse as a result of trafficking in persons and other contemporary forms of slavery;

Encourages Member States to initiate and develop working-level contacts among countries of origin, transit and destination, especially among police, prosecutors and social authorities;

Welcomes the holding, in Tokyo on 26 and 27 September 2006, of a meeting of United Nations offices, funds and programmes with other international organizations to enhance cooperation on trafficking in persons, as requested by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 2006/27, and encourages continued collaboration to eliminate gaps and overlaps in the activities of the concerned bodies;

Requests the Secretary-General to improve upon the fledgling inter-agency coordination group on trafficking in persons in order to enhance cooperation and coordination and facilitate a holistic and comprehensive approach by the international community to the problem of trafficking in persons;

Also requests the Secretary-General to entrust the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime with coordinating the activities of the inter-agency coordination group, which should be based in Vienna, bearing in mind the availability of extrabudgetary resources;

Encourages the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to cooperate with relevant international organizations outside of the United Nations system and to invite such organizations and interested Member States to participate, when appropriate, in the meetings of the inter-agency coordination group and to keep Member States informed of the schedule of the inter-agency coordination group and progress made by the group;

Invites the inter-agency coordination group, drawing on the comparative advantages of the respective agencies, to promote effective and efficient use of existing resources, using, to the extent possible, mechanisms already in place at the regional and national levels, and to share information, experiences and good practices on anti-trafficking activities of the partner agencies with Governments, international and regional organizations, non-governmental organizations and other relevant bodies;

Invites Member States to provide voluntary contributions to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in order to facilitate optimum implementation of its coordination functions;

Welcomes the report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime entitled “Trafficking in persons: global patterns”, requests the Office to continue to prepare such periodic reports, subject to the availability of extrabudgetary resources, and invites the inter-agency coordination group to provide information to the Office and contribute to the elaboration of the periodic comprehensive reports, database and website on trafficking in persons, subject to the availability of extrabudgetary resources;

Invites Member States to consider the advisability of a United Nations strategy or plan of action on preventing trafficking in persons, prosecuting traffickers and protecting and assisting victims of trafficking;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and to the General Assembly at its sixty-third session a report on the implementation of the present resolution and the proposals on strengthening the capacities of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime for the efficient implementation of its coordination functions.

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