Genre et commerce

This document presents the generale recommandation19 on Violence against women adopted by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women at its Eleventh Session in 1992.

This document presents the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others. The Convention affirms that trafficking in women and sexual exploitation are issues of concern to the international community.

This document presents the Resolution 11-3 of the Human Rights Council on Trafficking in persons, especially women and children. This resolution urges Governments To take appropriate measures to address the root factors, including external factors, that encourage trafficking in persons for prostitution and other forms of commercialized sex, forced marriages and forced labour, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs, including by strengthening existing legislation or by considering the enactment of anti-trafficking legislation and the adoption of national plans of action; To criminalize trafficking in persons in all its forms and to condemn and penalize traffickers, facilitators and intermediaries, including, where applicable, by imposing sanctions against legal entities involved in the process of trafficking, without making accusations by or the participation of the victims of trafficking a precondition to the prosecution of trafficking

This document presents the Resolution 52/98 of the United Nations on Traffic in women and girls. This resolution is adopted by the general assembly on the Fifty-second session. The General Assembly calls upon Governments to undertake immediate action or to strengthen efforts in their implementation by considering the ratification and enforcement of international conventions on trafficking in persons and on slavery; Taking appropriate measures to address the root factors, including external factors, that encourage trafficking in women and girls for prostitution and other forms of commercialized sex, forced marriage and forced labour, so as to eliminate trafficking in women, including by strengthening existing legislation, with a view to providing better protection of the rights of women and girls and to punishing perpetrators, through both criminal and civil measures; Stepping up cooperation and concerted action by all relevant law enforcement authorities and institutions with a view to dismantling national, regional and international networks in trafficking; Allocating resources to provide comprehensive programmes designed to heal and rehabilitate into society victims of trafficking, including through job training, legal assistance and confidential health care, and by taking measures to cooperate with non-governmental organizations to provide for the social, medical and psychological care of the victims of trafficking; Developing educational and training programmes and policies and considering enacting legislation to prevent sex tourism and trafficking, giving special emphasis to the protection of young women and children

This document presents the Resolution 63/156 of the United Nations on Trafficking in women and girls. This resolution is adopted by the general assembly on the Sixty-third session. The General Assembly Urges Governments to devise, enforce and strengthen effective gender- and age-sensitive measures to combat and eliminate all forms of trafficking in women and girls, including for sexual and economic exploitation, as part of a comprehensive anti-trafficking strategy that integrates a human rights perspective, and to draw up, as appropriate, national action plans in this regard; to support and allocate resources to strengthen preventive action, in particular education for women and men, as well as for girls and boys, on gender equality, self-respect and mutual respect, and campaigns, carried out in collaboration with civil society, to increase public awareness of the issue at the national and grass-roots levels; encourages Governments to take appropriate measures to eliminate sex tourism demand, especially of children, through all possible preventive actions