Code: ECOSOC/DR/2/Mugabe

Committee: Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

Topic : Combatting Human Trafficking Through International Cooperation

Sponsors: Afghanistan, Nigeria, Sweden, United States of America

Signatories: Australia, Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guyana, Italy, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Somalia, United Kingdom

The United Nations Economic and Social Council,

Recognizing the six to eight hundred thousand humans trafficked over international borders each year,

Keeping in mind the work of Interpol on this topic;

Acknowledging why people turn to human traffickers to escape prosecution of religion, recover from poverty and to receive medical aid,

Understanding the need for international cooperation to prosecute human traffickers,

Further understanding the need for recovery for the human trafficked,

Fully aware of the US DOJ research into human trafficking cases that shows an increase of human trafficking after natural disasters,

Deeply aware that 80% of human trafficking is for the cause of prostitution,

Deeply concerned the 92 countries with no legislation at all that specifically addressing child pornography,

1. Expresses its hopethat countries will implement legislation prohibiting the purchase of sex;

2. Suggests the expansion of the International Organization for Migrants with the purpose of:

a. Collecting and combining information about known human traffickers from each country to create a global blacklist;

b. Analyzing global data with the purpose of predicting large human trafficking occurrences;

c. Coordinating global prosecution efforts;

3. Recommends the usage of NGOs like The Fight for Freedom to provide help to the formerly human trafficked with the instructions of:

a. Providing aid in finding a sustainable job;

b. Providing aid in the form of shelter, food, water, and other necessities until the formerly human trafficked citizen finds a sustainable job;

4. Emphasizesthe creation of a ECOSOC-UNESCO initiative to reduce poverty and consequently reduce human trafficking through formal education:

a. Provide funding to NGO’s such as Amnesty International to help properly distribute financial aid to citizens who can't afford education;

b. Increase funding for the UNESCO Education for All Program which helps create and improve schools where local governments can't afford to;

5. Recommendsall member states that haven't currently done so to ban all or most forms of child pornography under Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children and proposes:

a. Severe punishment for people who are found using people under 18 for pornography;

b. The creation of a special branch of courts to quickly prosecute these cases;

6. Further recommends the Interpol to prevent human trafficking during natural disasters or national crisis by training local aid workers to:

a. Help distribute aid where it is needed to prevent and prosecute human traffickers;

b. Recognize both victims and traffickers and they can share this knowledge with their fellow volunteers and therefore get more people involved;

7. Designatesthe UNODC to modify Chapter 6 of the Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Person passed in 2008, to modify and protection for victims and add clauses which it feels necessary based on current conditions:

a. Increasing role of local and state governments of states to provide adequate support for victims and prosecute their cases quickly;

b. Prevent human trafficking victims from falling into the traps of trafficking once again;

  1. Hopes that local and state governments help victims with welfare programs to prevent the cycle the poverty
  2. Further invites local governments to provide protection to previous victims of human trafficking who have decided to come out and talk about their experience;