The United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons is a United Nations establishment to provide

humanitarian Humanitarianism is an active belief in the value of human life, whereby humans practice benevolent treatment and provide assistance to other humans to reduce suffering and improve the conditions of humanity for moral, altruistic, and emotional ...

, legal and financial aid to victims of

human trafficking Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extrac ...

with the aim of increasing the number of those rescued and supported, and broadening the extent of assistance they receive. It was launched on 4 November 2010 by U.N. Secretary-General

Ban Ki-moon Ban Ki-moon (; ; born 13 June 1944) is a South Korean politician and diplomat who served as the eighth secretary-general of the United Nations between 2007 and 2016. Prior to his appointment as secretary-general, Ban was his country's Minister ...

, The Fund was established in accordance with resolution A/RES/64/293 Article 38 of the

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on 12 August 2010 - United Nations

Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons The Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons is a human trafficking action plan adopted by the United Nations in July 2010. Description Kyrgyzstan supported the plan's adoption, as did Canada, and Mexico signed off on the plan th ...

. To ensure efficient, transparent, and accountable Fund administration and to support uniform and consolidated reporting, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is designated as the Fund Manager for the Fund.

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UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking

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