Implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons

E/RES/2015/23View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 19c Crime prevention and criminal justice, published in 2015.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 2013–2021

This is an older version — the most recent is E/RES/2021/25

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2021	E/RES/2021/25	Implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons	2,408	45%Compare
2017	E/RES/2017/18	Implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons	1,882	47%Compare
2015	E/RES/2015/23	Implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons	1,304	20%Compare
2013	E/RES/2013/41	Implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons	1,434	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Crime Prevention Technical Cooperation Trafficking in Persons

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

Reiterates the crucial importance of 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 which entered into force on 25 December 2003 and which provided for the first time an internationally agreed definition of the crime of trafficking in persons, aimed at the prevention of trafficking in persons, the protection of its victims and the prosecution of its perpetrators, and in this regard calls upon Member States that have not yet done so to consider as a matter of priority ratifying or acceding to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeError: Reference source not found and its Trafficking in Persons Protocol;

Reaffirms the importance of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, which was established to improve the capacity of States parties to combat transnational organized crime and to promote and review the implementation of the Convention and the Trafficking in Persons Protocol;

Urges Member States and other stakeholders mentioned in the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons,⁴ and invites the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and other 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;

⁴General Assembly resolution 64/293.

Welcomes the first observation of the World Day against Trafficking in Persons in 2014, and invites all Member States, relevant agencies of the United Nations system and other international organizations, as well as civil society, to continue to actively observe the World Day every year;

Also welcomes the publication of the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2014, prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime pursuant to the Global Plan of Action, looks forward to the next such report, to be produced by the Office in 2016, and encourages Member States to provide to the Office evidence-based data on patterns, forms and flows of trafficking in persons;

Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue to integrate the Global Plan of Action into its programmes and activities and to continue to provide, at the national and regional levels, technical assistance to countries, upon their request, aimed at strengthening their ability to ensure full and effective implementation of the Global Plan of Action;

Invites the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and other relevant agencies of the United Nations system, within the framework of the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons, to continue to increase the activities of the Group related to the implementation of the Global Plan of Action;

Encourages the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in its capacity as coordinator of the Inter-Agency Coordination Group, and other members of the 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 Office and other members of the Group to continue 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;

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;

Invites Member States and other donors to provide extrabudgetary resources for the purposes described above, in accordance with the rules and procedures of the United Nations;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at its twenty-sixth session on the implementation of the present resolution, including by providing an update on the status of the contributions to and expenditures of the Trust Fund.

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