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migration, and welcomes the convening of the Intergovernmental Conference to
Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, in Marrakech,
Morocco, on 10 and 11 December 2018,
Welcoming in particular the efforts of States, United Nations bodies and
agencies and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to combat
human trafficking, especially trafficking in women and children, including the
implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking
in Persons adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 64/293 of 30 July 2010,
Recognizing the urgency of combating human trafficking in all its forms,
including for the purposes of forced or compulsory labour, including of women
migrant workers, and in this regard taking note of the adoption by the Inte rnational
Labour Conference on 11 June 2014, at its 103rd session, of the Protocol to the Forced
Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), and of the Forced Labour (Supplementary
Measures) Recommendation, 2014 (No. 203), of the International Labour
Organization,
Welcoming, in the agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status
of Women at its sixty-second session, 12 the commitment of Governments to
implement comprehensive anti-trafficking strategies that integrate a human rights and
sustainable development perspective, including in raising public awareness on the
issue of human trafficking, and to ensure that the rights and specific needs of women
and girls subjected to human trafficking are addressed in national and international
plans, strategies and responses,
Noting with appreciation the efforts, including of the human rights treaty bodies
and the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on trafficking in persons,
especially women and children, other relevant special procedures mandate holders of
the Council involved in human trafficking issues, the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General on Violence against Children and United Nations agencies and
other concerned intergovernmental and governmental organizations, within their
existing mandates, as well as civil society, to address the crime of human trafficking,
and encouraging them to continue doing so and to share their knowledge and best
practices as widely as possible,
Noting the relevant contributions of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in
persons, especially women and children, 13 and her work in integrating a gender- and
age-specific perspective throughout her mandate, in relation to the issue of human
trafficking,
Acknowledging the inclusion of gender-related crimes in the Rome Statute of
the International Criminal Court, 14 which entered into force on 1 July 2002,
Bearing in mind the obligations of States to exercise due diligence to prevent
human trafficking, to investigate and punish perpetrators of human trafficking and to
protect and empower victims, and that not doing so may violate and impair or nullify
the enjoyment of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the victims,
Seriously concerned that an increasing number of women and girls are being
trafficked, to both developed and developing countries, as well as within and between
regions and States, and recognizing that human trafficking disproportionately affects
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Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2018, Supplement No. 7 (E/2018/27),
chap. I, sect. A.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/69/53),
chap. V, sect. A, resolution 26/8.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2187, No. 38544.
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