A/HRC/RES/20/1
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Ensuring that trafficked children are equipped with information on all matters
affecting their interests, including their situation and the legal options, entitlements and
services available to them, and processes of family reunification or repatriation, and to
ensure that trafficked children have access to legal, interpretative and other necessary
assistance provided by professionals trained in child rights and in communicating with
trafficked children;
5.
Calls upon States to consider signing and ratifying, as a matter of priority, in
the case of Governments that have not yet done so, and for States parties to implement
relevant United Nations legal instruments, such as the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto, in particular the Protocol to
Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children,
supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and
to take immediate steps to incorporate provisions of the Protocol into domestic legal
systems;
6.
Urges States and requests United Nations funds, agencies and programmes,
and other relevant international, regional and subregional organizations within their
respective mandates, to continue to contribute to the full and effective implementation of
the Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons;
7.
Urges States, regional and subregional organizations to develop collective
regional strategies and plans of action to combat trafficking in persons;
8.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to organize, in close
cooperation with the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and
children, consultations with States, regional intergovernmental bodies and organizations
and civil society on the draft basic principles on the right to effective remedy for trafficked
persons, and to submit a summary thereon to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-sixth
session;
9.
Invites States and other interested parties to make further voluntary
contributions to the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in
Persons, Especially Women and Children, and the United Nations Trust Fund on
Contemporary Forms of Slavery;
10.
Calls upon all States to continue to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur on
trafficking in persons, especially women and children, and to consider responding
favourably to the mandate holder’s requests to visit their countries and to provide all
necessary information related to the mandate to enable the mandate holder to fulfil the
duties of the mandate effectively, including by giving input to the Special Rapporteur on
the draft basic principles on the right to an effective remedy for trafficked persons, annexed
to her report submitted to the Human Rights Council;3
11.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to continue and strengthen its
activities, including technical assistance and capacity-building, devoted to combating
trafficking in persons in coordination with relevant international agencies;
12.
Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to promote the
Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking
developed by the Office at the regional and subregional levels;
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A/HRC/17/35.
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