Protecting the human rights and improving the lives of sex workers and victims of sexual exploitation

Amendment No. 26 | Doc. 16044 | 03 October 2024

Signatories:

Ms Alessandra MAIORINO, Italy, NR ; Ms Elena BONETTI, Italy, ALDE ; Ms Laura CASTEL, Spain, UEL ; Ms Andrea EDER-GITSCHTHALER, Austria, EPP/CD ; Ms Heike ENGELHARDT, Germany, SOC ; Ms Elisabetta GARDINI, Italy, EC/DA

Origin

2024 - Fourth part-session

In the draft resolution, replace paragraph 3 with the following paragraph:

"As clearly demonstrated in the reports provided by any monitoring institutional bodies, such as the UNODC global reports on trafficking in persons, and EUROSTAT reports, the vast majority of victims of trafficking of human beings around the world are women and girls. Policies adopted by each member State to counter such a phenomenon should therefore be gender-sensitive and based on the higher vulnerability of these victims."

Explanatory note

The gender aspect in the fight against trafficking in human beings is significant. In 2021, 68.4 % of registered victims of trafficking in human beings in the EU were women or girls.