Trafficking in women and girls : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2002
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SymbolA/RES/57/176
TitleTrafficking in women and girls : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
AccessEnglish: A_RES_57_176-EN - PDF ; Español: A_RES_57_176-ES - PDF ; Français: A_RES_57_176-FR - PDF ; Other: A_RES_57_176-DE - PDF ; Русский: A_RES_57_176-RU - PDF ; العربية: A_RES_57_176-AR - PDF ; 中文: A_RES_57_176-ZH - PDF ;
Summary
Urges Governments to take appropriate measures to address the root factors, that encourage trafficking in women and girls; further urges governments to consider signing and ratifying relevant UN legal instruments; encourages Member States to conclude bilateral, subregional, regional and international agreements; calls upon all Governments to criminalize trafficking in women and children; invites the same to consider setting up or strengthening a national coordinating mechanism to encourage the exchange of information and to report on data, root causes, factors and trends in violence against women; urges concerned Governments to support and allocate resources for programmes to strengthen preventive action; calls upon Governments to take steps to ensure that the treatment of victims of trafficking are applied with full respect for the human rights of those victims; invites Governments to take steps to enable women who are victims of trafficking to make complaints to the police or other authorities; further invites Governments to encourage Internet service providers to adopt or strengthen self-regulatory measures; 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; urges Governments to provide or strengthen training for law enforcement, immigration and other relevant officials in the prevention of trafficking in persons; requests the Secretary-Gneral to include in his report to the General Assembly at its 59th session proposals for a future international/UN year against trafficking in persons.
Action note2002-12-18
Vote summary
Adopted without vote, 77th plenary meeting
DraftA/C.3/57/L.17
Committee reportA/57/549
Meeting record
A/57/PV.77
Agenda information
A/57/251 102 Advancement of women. WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT
Date[New York] : UN, 30 Jan. 2003
Description
7 p.