A/RES/65/130
5.
Follows the monitoring activities of the Group of Experts on Action
against Trafficking in Human Beings, established under the Council of Europe
Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, 6 and recalls that the
Convention is open for accession by all States;
5F
6.
Encourages the Council of Europe to continue cooperation with the
United Nations in the fight against trafficking in persons, and in this context
welcomes the adoption of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat
Trafficking in Persons, 7 stressing the need for its full and effective implementation,
and expressing the view that it will, inter alia, enhance cooperation and improve
coordination of efforts in fighting trafficking in persons and promote increased
ratification and full implementation of the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime 8 and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish
Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United
Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime; 9
6F
7F
8F
7.
Welcomes the joint Council of Europe/United Nations study entitled
Trafficking in organs, tissues and cells and trafficking in human beings for the
purpose of the removal of organs, 10 launched at the sixty-fourth session of the
General Assembly, and encourages further joint endeavours on following up the
study;
9F
Welcomes and encourages the close collaboration between the United
8.
Nations Children’s Fund, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on
violence against children, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights and the Council of Europe to protect and promote the rights of the
child, takes note of the Council of Europe Policy Guidelines on National Integrated
Strategies for the Protection of Children from Violence, 11 which constitute a
practical follow-up to the study of the Secretary-General on violence against
children, 12 and notes the intention of the Council of Europe to launch a panEuropean campaign to stop sexual violence against children;
10F
1F
9.
Welcomes the establishment of the new United Nations Entity for Gender
Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), and looks forward to the
development of cooperation between the Council of Europe and the new entity;
10. Recognizes that 2010 marks the tenth anniversary of the International
Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, welcomes the increased
commitment of the Council of Europe to gender equality, the empowerment of
women and the elimination of violence against women, including domestic violence,
and its effective contribution within the framework of the global campaign of the
Secretary-General to end violence against women, as well as its commitment to the
implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000, and
also welcomes the drafting of a Council of Europe convention on preventing and
combating violence against women and domestic violence;
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6
Council of Europe, European Treaty Series, No. 197.
Resolution 64/293.
8
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2225, No. 39574.
9
Ibid., vol. 2237, No. 39574.
10
Available from www.coe.int/trafficking.
11
Available from www.coe.int/children.
12
See A/61/299 and A/62/209.
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