Trafficking in women and girls : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Calls upon Governments to eliminate the demand for trafficked women and girls for all forms of exploitation; urges Governments to devise, enforce and strengthen effective gender- and age-sensitive measures to combat and eliminate all forms of trafficking in women and girls, including for sexual and economic exploitation; urges Governments to take all appropriate measures to ensure that victims of trafficking are not penalized for being trafficked and that they do not suffer from revictimization as a result of actions taken by government authorities; encourages Governments to take appropriate measures to eliminate sex tourism demand, especially of children, through all possible preventive actions; requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its 63rd session a report that compiles successful interventions and strategies, as well as challenges, in addressing the gender dimensions of the problem of trafficking in persons, that identifies gender-related aspects of anti-trafficking efforts that remain unaddressed or inadequately addressed.

Adopted without vote, 81st plenary meeting

7 p.

Issued in GAOR, 61st sess., Suppl. no. 49.