Second Meeting on the Working Group on Trafficking in Persons, Vienna, Austria, 27 - 29 January 2010

At its fourth session, held in Vienna from 8 to 17 October 2008, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime adopted decision 4/4. In that decision, the Conference decided to establish an open-ended interim working group to advise and assist the Conference in the implementation of its mandate with regard to the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. It also decided that the working group should perform the following functions:

1. Facilitate implementation of the Trafficking in Persons Protocol through the exchange of experience and practices between experts and practicioners in this area, including by contributing to the identification of weaknesses, gaps and challenges;
2. Make recommendations to the Conference on how States parties can better implement the provisions of the Trafficking in Persons Protocol;
3. Assist the Conference in providing guidance to its secretariat on its activities relating to the implementation of the Trafficking in Persons Protocol;
4. Make recommendations to the Conference on how it can better coordinate with the various international bodies combating trafficking in persons with respect to implementing, supporting and promoting the Trafficking in Persons Protocol.

The Conference further decided that the working group should meet during the fifth session of the Conference and should hold at least one intersessional meeting before that session.

The first intersessional meeting of the working group was held in Vienna, Austria, from 14 to 15 April 2009.

Document Symbol	Document	Eng	French	Spanish	Russian	Arabic	Chinese
CU 2009/92	Note verbale	pdf	pdf	pdf	-	-	-
	Provisional agenda and annotations
	Information note for participants
	Report of the Working Group on Trafficking in Persons, 27-29 January 2010
CTOC/COP/WG.4/2009/2	Report of the Working Group on Trafficking in Persons, 14-15 April 2009	pdf	pdf	pdf	pdf	pdf	pdf