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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN the observations and recommendations of the
Permanent Council on the
annual report of the Inter-American Commission of Women
(CIM);
BEARING IN MIND the resolution of the Inter-American
Commission of Women entitled "Fighting the Crime of Trafficking in Persons,
Especially Women, Adolescents, and Children" [CIM/RES. 225/02 (XXXI-O/02)], in
which it was decided that “a multilateral response from governments, in
consultation with civil society organizations, is necessary in order to
formulate policies to prevent trafficking in persons, protect victims, and
punish traffickers”;
BEARING IN MIND resolution AG/RES. 1776 (XXXI-O/01),
“Support for the United
Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime,”
which urged all OAS member states to consider signing and ratifying, ratifying,
or acceding, as the case may be, to the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime, and its Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish
Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children;
CONSIDERING that, in keeping with the Plan of Action of the
Third Summit of the
Americas, in Quebec in 2001, in which the Heads of State and
Government pledged to “[i]mplement collective strategies, including those that
emerge from the Meetings of Ministers of Justice of the Americas … in order to
jointly combat emerging forms of transnational criminal activity, including
trafficking in persons and the laundering of the proceeds and assets of crime
and cyber-crime,” the Inter-American Commission of Women conducted research on
trafficking in persons in nine countries of the region and intends to expand
this study to include the remaining member states; and
REAFFIRMING that trafficking in persons, especially in
women, adolescents, boys, and girls is a modern form of slavery,
RESOLVES:
1. To urge the member states, in accordance with their
national legal systems and the international instruments in force in each
state, to adopt the measures necessary to implement the recommendations of the
resolution entitled "Fighting the Crime of Trafficking in Persons, Especially
Women, Adolescents, and Children" [CIM/RES. 225/02 (XXXI-O/02)], so as to
enhance their legal, judicial, and administrative systems, and to consider the
establishment, where appropriate, of a national coordination mechanism to
prevent and combat the crime of trafficking in persons and to protect victims.
2. To request the Permanent Secretariat of the
Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM):
a. To facilitate the exchange of information and best
practices among member states that so request with a view to fighting the crime
of trafficking in persons and expanding its research to include other member
states.
b. To present to the Permanent Council a report on CIM
activities in the
member states in connection with trafficking in persons,
especially women and children.
3. To request the Permanent Council to report to the General
Assembly at its thirty-fourth regular session on the implementation of this
resolution on CIM activities in the countries of the region in connection with
trafficking in persons, especially women, adolescents, and children.
4. To instruct the Secretary General to appoint an "OAS
Coordinator on the Issue of Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women,
Adolescents and Children," who is to be housed in the Permanent Secretariat of
the CIM and to be funded by a specific fund created for this purpose with
contributions from member states and other external resources, to serve as a
focal point to facilitate information exchange and the efforts of member states
that so request to prevent and combat trafficking in persons, especially women,
adolescents, and children.
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