UN adopts Resolution to Combat Trafficking in Persons sponsored by the Republic Belarus

26-05-2017

On May 26, 2017 in Vienna the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice adopted resolution “Implementation of the UN Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons” which was submitted by the Republic of Belarus.

The Belarusian resolution is aimed at summing up the results of the two-year implementation of the Global Plan to be held in the Fall 2017 in New York, as well as provision of the international support to the appraisal process of the implementation of the UN Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons, which will be held in September 2017 in New-York.

The resolution focused on the importance of the key elements of the Global Plan such as biennial anti-trafficking Report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Voluntary Trust Fund for the protection of victims of trafficking, as well as the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons.

Nineteen countries including UK, Indonesia, Greece have co-sponsored the Belarusian resolution.

The adoption of the Belarusian draft resolution demonstrates the urgency and importance attached by the international community to the topic of countering human trafficking and recognition of the active role of Belarus in advancing this topic at the international level, in particular in the UN system.

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