Activities of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to Promote and Support the Implementation of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime

• NCJ Number: 239950
• Date Published: June 2012
• Length: 8 pages
• Corporate Author: Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
• Sale Source: United Nations Publications
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Issue Overview
• Language: English
• Country: Austria

Annotation

This report provides information on the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children pursuant to resolution 5/2 of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.

Abstract

This report informs the Conference at its sixth session of the activities of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to promote and support the implementation of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. The new Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling Section has been established in the Organized Crime and Illicit Trafficking Branch of the UNODC to put into operation the comprehensive strategy to combat trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants. The Section will continue to implement programs on awareness-raising, capacity-building and the promotion of the implementation of the Trafficking in Persons Protocol and the Smuggling of Migrants Protocol. The Section will also continue to facilitate inter-agency cooperation on work to combat trafficking in persons through the active participation of UNODC in inter-agency forums and initiatives, especially UN.Gift, the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons and The Global Migration Group.