Traffic in women and girls

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on the traffic in women and girls; welcomes actions undertaken by Governments to implement the provisions on trafficking in women and girls contained in the Platform for Action of the 4th World Conference on Women and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights; calls upon Governments to criminalize trafficking in women and girls in all its forms, to condemn and penalize all those offenders involved, including intermediaries, whether their offence was committed in their own or in a foreign country; urges concerned Governments to support and allocate resources for programmes to strengthen preventive action; encourages Governments to develop systematic data-collection methods and to continuously update information on trafficking in women and girls; urges Governments to strengthen national programmes to combat trafficking in women and girls through sustained bilateral, regional and international cooperation; invites Governments to formulate training manuals for law enforcement and medical personnel and judicial officers who handle cases of trafficked women and girls; invites Governments and civil society to promote the responsible use of new information technologies; invites States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child to include information and statistics on trafficking in women and girls as part of their national reports to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women; encourages the Inter-Agency Committee on Women and Gender Equality to continue to address the issue as part of the integrated follow-up to the 4th World Conference on Women.

Adopted without vote, 70th meeting

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Adopted at the 70th plenary meeting, 12 Dec. 1997.