Considering
1. that trafficking of women and children is a serious international crime and against their human rights,
2. that the increase in trafficking is very fast and significant,
3. that this trafficking is leading to a sex industry and other form of sexual exploitation,
Concerned
1. that the gap between poor and rich countries is one of the reasons of the fast growth of prostitution and trafficking,
2. that the trafficking of women and children occurs mainly from the poorer with prolonged economic and political crises to the richer and more stable economic and political countries around the world,
Recalling
1. The United Nation Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (TOC Convention) and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons especially Women and Children and the Protocol on Trafficking in Persons and against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea an Air (2000),
2. Article 6 of CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women -1979),
THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN Urges all affiliated National Councils
1. to combat the trend of trafficking by encouraging their governments to pass legislation that penalizes the traffickers and the mediators who buy women and children for their sex industries and other sexual exploitation,
2. to press for penalties for brothel owners, clients and police who ignore the crime of trafficking or take bribes or issue fake identity cards,
3. to urge the government of industrial countries and the multinational companies to make resources available to the NCW in developing countries to conduct training for women in small scale business skills and provide the initial capital needed.
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Source: International Council of Women (ICW-CIF) — 30th General Assembly, Perth, Western Australia, August 31 – September 5, 2003. Resolution No. 8.
