COOPERATION AMONG OAS MEMBER STATES TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS First Committee Draft Resolution presented by the Delegation

of Brazil CONSIDERING, That human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, harboring, or receipt of people for the purposes of slavery, forced labor (including bonded labor or debt bondage), and servitude and that trafficking is human rights violation that is an crime against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; HAVING SEEN, The Annual Report on Fighting the Crime of Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women, Adolescents, and Children in the Americas (CP/doc.4023/05); that trafficking is a manifestation of transnational organized crime (AG/Res. 2116 (XXXV-O/05); CONSIDERING, That the act of human trafficking is a grave violation of human rights and requires a fast and prompt response as it affect victims physically and emotionally and recovery from such damage is difficult; Topic No. 1

NOTING,

That human trafficking is a growing problem that our member states are facing; That Council of Europe states that "people trafficking has reached epidemic proportions over the past decade, with a global annual market of about $42.5 billion." and the practice is the fastestgrowing criminal industry in the world, with a U.N.-projected worth of about $32 billion. CONSIDERING; Those in many cases victims are lured by possible better opportunities in another country and so fall to the hands of coyotes that will help the get to the other country. And in many of these cases the coyotes result being traffickers taking the victim from their country and take their freedom away. TAKING INTO ACCOUNT, The conclusions and recommendations of the Meeting of Government Experts to Consider the Advisability of Developing a Hemispheric Plan of Action against Transnational Organized Crime, in the context of resolution AG/RES. 2026 (XXXIV-O/04), which took place at OAS headquarters on April 18 and 19, 2005, RESOLVES:
1. To invite member states who have still not done so to consider signing, ratifying, and

acting as soon as possible the Palermo Convention and its three supplementary protocols thereto, the Protocol Against the Smuggling of Migrant by Land , Sea and Air; the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children; and the Protocol against the Illicit manufacturing of and Trafficking in Fire Arms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition.

2. To instruct the Permanent Council to establish, in accordance with Article 12 of its rules

of Procedure, a Special Committee on Trafficking of persons, with participation of government experts, to prepare a draft hemispheric plan of action against trafficking in persons and to follow up on the related activities of the Organization and its organs, agencies, and entities.
3. To give victims of trafficking eligibility for protection and calls for careful response to be

made in consideration of the different conditions of each victim, while giving due thought to the severe mental and physical situation in which many of victims find themselves.
4. Regarding the penalties for perpetrators (brokers and employers, etc.), the Action Plan

calls for the criminal law to be amended, reflecting the gravity of the crime and for control measures to be further strengthened after hearing the opinions of domestic and overseas institutions concerned and non-governmental organizations with the aim of swiftly constructing integrated and comprehensive measures.
5. To instruct the General Secretariat to develop a mechanism for coordinating the efforts

of, agencies, entities, and mechanism currently dealing with topics related to prevention and fight against trafficking in persons, in order to prevent duplication and optimize the use of institutional resources.
6. To instruct the Permanent Council and the General Secretariat to carry our as appropriate,

the activities mentioned in the resolution in accordance with the resource allocated I the program budget of the Organization and other resources.
a) reducing the vulnerability of potential victims through social and economic

development
b) discouraging the demand for the services of trafficked persons

c) Public education d) Border control

e) preventing the corruption of public officials

Cosignatories: 1.____________________________ 2.____________________________ 3.____________________________ 4.____________________________ 5.____________________________ Names of Delegates ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ Counties Represented