Improving the Coordination of Efforts Against Trafficking in Persons

A/RES/67/190View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 103 Crime prevention and criminal justice, published in 2013.

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 subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Crime Prevention International Instruments Special Procedures Trafficking in Persons

What’s in this document?

15 operative paragraphs

Affirms that trafficking in persons violates and impairs the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms and requires a concerted international assessment and response and genuine multilateral cooperation among countries of origin, transit and destination for its eradication;

Urges Member States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying or acceding to, as a matter of priority, 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 taking into consideration the central role of those instruments in the fight against trafficking in persons, and also urges States parties to those instruments to implement them fully and effectively;

Also urges Member States that have not yet done so to sign and 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,¹⁵ the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery,Error: Reference source not found and the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29),¹⁶ the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No. 105)¹⁷ and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182),¹⁸ of the International Labour Organization, and also urges States parties to those instruments to implement them fully and effectively;

¹⁵United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378.

¹⁶Ibid., vol. 39, No. 612.

¹⁷Ibid., vol. 320, No. 4648.

¹⁸Ibid., vol. 2133, No. 37245.

Notes with appreciation the steps taken by 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;

Calls upon Governments to continue their efforts to criminalize trafficking in persons in all its forms, including for labour exploitation and 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 to prevent and combat trafficking and to protect, assist and provide effective remedies to the victims of trafficking, including through the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons and regional and bilateral initiatives that promote cooperation and collaboration;

Recognizes the importance of comparable data disaggregated by type of trafficking in persons, including sex and age, as well as of strengthening national capacity for gathering, analysing and reporting such data, and welcomes the efforts of the Inter-Agency Coordination Group, 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, by the International Organization for Migration through its Global Counter-Trafficking Module database and by the International Labour Organization through its global database on forced labour, trafficking and slavery-like practice;

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 make voluntary contributions to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime for the purpose of providing assistance to Member States upon request;

Welcomes the work done by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and expresses its full support for its activities in fighting trafficking in persons, and looks forward to the launch, within existing resources, of the report on global patterns in trafficking in persons, produced by the Office, as called for by the General Assembly in resolution 64/293, at United Nations Headquarters no later than January 2013;

Invites States and all other relevant stakeholders to continue contributing to the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, and acknowledges previous and ongoing contributions to other funding sources that support efforts to combat trafficking in persons;

Recalls its decision to conduct, in 2013, an appraisal of the progress achieved in the implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons,¹⁹ and therefore decides to convene, within existing resources, a high-level meeting of the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session, no later than July 2013, in order to assess achievements, gaps and challenges, including in the implementation of the relevant legal instruments;

¹⁹Resolution 64/293.

Requests the Secretary-General, in close cooperation with Member States, to take all necessary measures to arrange the high-level meeting, and invites the President of the General Assembly to appoint two co-facilitators to assist him in conducting open-ended informal consultations with Member States with a view to determining the modalities of the meeting, including on the participation of international, regional and subregional organizations, as well as civil society, including non-governmental organizations, the private sector and the media, whose role is emphasized in the Global Plan of Action;

Requests the President of the General Assembly to prepare a summary of the high-level meeting;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue, within existing reporting obligations, the practice of including a section on the implementation by the United Nations system of the Global Plan of Action in his report to the General Assembly under the item on crime prevention and criminal justice, and further requests the Secretary-General to include therein a section on the implementation of the present resolution, bearing in mind the scope of previous reports on this issue.²⁰

²⁰A/63/90, A/64/130 and A/65/113.

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