A/HRC/29/38 Persons for the period 2007–2010. Finally, a CIS draft Programme of Action for 2007– 2010 was adopted, to support the implementation of the 2005 Agreement and facilitate efficient cooperation at the regional level for the prevention and suppression of trafficking in persons and the rehabilitation of victims. 2. Middle East and North Africa 38. Within the framework of the League of Arab States, the Arab Initiative to Build National Capacities to Combat Human Trafficking in the Arab Countries was launched in March 2010 by the Council of Arab Ministers of Justice. The Initiative is aimed at combating trafficking in persons through developing the criminal justice system in Arab States, for example by the capacity-building of law-enforcement bodies, prosecutors, members of the judiciary and the media. 39. Other regional instruments for addressing trafficking in persons are the Arab Framework Act on Combating Trafficking in Persons (2008), which serves as a platform from which to spearhead action against trafficking in persons, and the Arab Charter of Human Rights (2008), which, inter alia, prohibits trafficking in human organs; and slavery and servitude, forced labour and trafficking in persons for the purposes of prostitution or sexual exploitation or the exploitation of the prostitution of others or any other form of exploitation or the exploitation of children in armed conflict; and has extensive provisions on the right to decent work freely chosen and on the right to development. 40. The Gulf Cooperation Council has also taken initiatives to curb trafficking in persons in the subregion, including through capacity-building workshops and the development of guiding principles to combat trafficking in persons in the region. 3. Latin America and the Caribbean 41. In this region, the 1994 Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors and the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women (Convention of Belém do Pará)17 contributed to the antitrafficking legal framework. Other instruments, such as the 2005 Montevideo Declaration against Trafficking in Persons in MERCOSUR (Common Market of the South) and Associated States, the 2008 Recommendations of the First International Congress of MERCOSUR and Associated States on Trafficking in Persons and Child Pornography, the Work Plan against Trafficking in Persons in the Western Hemisphere (2010–2012, later extended for two years, and 2015–2018), the Inter-American Declaration against Trafficking in Persons (“Declaration of Brasilia”, 2014) and the Brazil Declaration on a Framework for Cooperation and Regional Solidarity to Strengthen the International Protection of Refugees, Displaced and Stateless Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Cartagena+30, 2014), further consolidated regional efforts to eradicate human trafficking. 42. The commitment to promote effective measures to combat trafficking in persons was reaffirmed by the member States of a number of regional and subregional organizations, in particular MERCOSUR, the Andean Community, the Union of South American Nations, the Central American Integration System and the Organization of American States (OAS). OAS is strongly engaged in combating trafficking in persons on the American continent. At the political level, the OAS General Assembly has adopted resolutions that express the commitment of member States in that regard. At the level of the secretariat, the OAS Anti- 17 12 Article 2 of the Convention defines violence and article 2 (b) lists trafficking in persons as a form of violence against women.