Improving the Coordination of Efforts Against Trafficking in Persons

A/RES/68/192View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 108 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?

5 subjects

Crime Prevention International Days International Instruments Programme Implementation Trafficking in Persons

What’s in this document?

18 operative paragraphs

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;

Urges Member States and other stakeholders mentioned in the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons, and invites the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, relevant international, regional and subregional organizations, within their respective mandates, to continue to contribute to the full and effective implementation of the Global Plan of Action, including by means of strengthening cooperation and improving coordination among themselves in achieving that goal;

Welcomes the holding of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly during its sixty-seventh session, from 13 to 15 May 2013, to appraise the progress achieved in the implementation of the Global Plan of Action, which, inter alia, evinced strong political will to step up efforts against trafficking in persons;

Decides to appraise, from within existing resources, on a four-year basis, starting at its seventy-second session, the progress achieved in the implementation of the Global Plan of Action in order to assess achievements, gaps and challenges, including in the implementation of the relevant legal instruments, and requests the Secretary-General to take all necessary measures in that regard;

Also decides, in the context of the need for raising awareness of the situation of victims of human trafficking and for the promotion and protection of their rights, to designate 30 July as the World Day against Trafficking in Persons, to be observed every year beginning in 2014, invites all Member States, relevant agencies of the United Nations system and other international organizations, as well as civil society, to observe the World Day, and notes that the costs of all activities that may arise should be met from voluntary contributions;

Expresses support for the activities of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, reaffirms its request to the Secretary-General to provide adequate support to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, and invites Member States to make voluntary contributions to the Office for the purpose of providing assistance to Member States upon request;

Encourages the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to cooperate with relevant international organizations outside 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 against Trafficking in Persons and to keep Member States informed of the schedule of and the progress made by the Inter-Agency Coordination Group;

Invites the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in its capacity as coordinator of the Inter-Agency Coordination Group, and other relevant agencies of the United Nations system, to continue to increase their activities related to the implementation of relevant international instruments and the Global Plan of Action;

Invites Member States to address the social, economic, cultural, political and other factors that make people vulnerable to trafficking in persons, such as poverty, unemployment, inequality, humanitarian emergencies, including armed conflicts and natural disasters, sexual violence, gender discrimination and social exclusion and marginalization, as well as a culture of tolerance towards violence against women, youth and children;

Calls upon Member States, international organizations, civil society organizations and the private sector to increase and support prevention efforts in countries of origin, transit and destination by focusing on the demand that fosters all forms of trafficking and the goods and services produced as a result of trafficking in persons;

Calls upon Member States to continue their efforts to criminalize trafficking in persons in all its forms, including for labour exploitation and commercial sexual exploitation of children, including by tourists, to condemn these practices and to investigate, prosecute 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;

Invites the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and the Working Group on Trafficking in Persons, pursuant to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, to consider the need for meetings of representatives of national coordinating mechanisms on combating trafficking in persons, with a view to facilitating, inter alia, better international coordination and information exchange on good practices to address the problem of trafficking in persons;

Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in its capacity as fund manager of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, to continue to encourage contributions by States and all other relevant stakeholders to the Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children;

Welcomes the publication of the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2012 prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, looks forward to the next such report to be produced by the Office in 2014, pursuant to the Global Plan of Action, and encourages Member States to provide to the Office evidence-based data on patterns, forms and flows of trafficking in persons, including for the purpose of the removal of organs;

Invites Member States to give due consideration to the commitment on combating trafficking in persons made by world leaders at the Millennium Summit,Error: Reference source not found the 2005 World SummitError: Reference source not found and the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, held in 2010,Error: Reference source not found in elaborating the post-2015 development agenda;

Encourages the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and other members of the Inter-Agency Coordination Group to continue to contribute in line with their existing mandates to the implementation of the Global Plan of Action, and in this regard invites the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and other members of the Inter-Agency Coordination Group to elaborate, in cooperation with Member States, a list of concrete measures planned until 2017 aimed at implementing the Global Plan of Action and to present it in an appropriate manner to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session;

Invites Member States and other international and bilateral donors to provide voluntary contributions for these purposes, in accordance with the policies, rules and procedures of the United Nations;

Requests the Secretary-General to resume the preparation of a separate report on the implementation of the present resolution and to submit the next report to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session.

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