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

E/RES/2017/18View 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 2017.

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?

13 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 Crime1 and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime,2 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 effectively;

Urges Member States and other stakeholders mentioned in the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons,⁵ and invites the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 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;

⁵General Assembly resolution 64/293.

Invites the Working Group on Trafficking in Persons established by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention to consider developing recommendations for measures within its mandate that may also further the goals of the Global Plan of Action;

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 annually the World Day against Trafficking in Persons;

Takes note with appreciation of the publication of the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2016, 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 2018, and requests the Office to continue, in close cooperation and collaboration with Member States, to collect, in a balanced, reliable and comprehensive manner, information on patterns, forms and flows of trafficking in persons at the national, regional and international levels for use in those reports and to share best practices and lessons learned from various initiatives and mechanisms;

Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, within its mandate, 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 effectively implement the Global Plan of Action, the Organized Crime Convention and the Trafficking in Persons Protocol;

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 and, to this end, to incorporate aspects of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development4 relevant to preventing and combating trafficking in persons and to consider how future activities will be coordinated and how the duplication of efforts will be avoided;

Calls upon all members of the Inter-Agency Coordination Group, especially those that are not members of its working group, to participate actively in the work of the Group, including at the level of principals;

Invites all members of the Inter-Agency Coordination Group, if they have not yet done so, to designate a focal point responsible for efforts to prevent and combat 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;

Welcomes the adoption of General Assembly resolution 71/287 of 4 May 2017 on the modalities, format and organization of the high-level meeting of the Assembly on the appraisal of the Global Plan of Action, to be held on 27 and 28 September 2017, during the seventy-second session of the Assembly;

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;

Recalls the request made to the Secretary-General by the General Assembly in its resolution 64/293 to include a section on the implementation by the United Nations system of the Global Plan of Action, within already existing reporting obligations to the Assembly under the item on crime prevention and criminal justice.

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