Parliamentary Assembly Assemblée parlementaire

Doc. 10886_2^nd edition
2 May 2006

Ending all forms of human trafficking

Written Declaration No 376

This written declaration commits only the members who have signed it

Trafficking in human beings, for whatever purpose – sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, trafficking in organs – is an intolerable evil which violates the fundamental rights of the women, men and children who are its victims.

At the initiative of the Parliamentary Assembly, in 2005 the Committee of Ministers adopted the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings which seeks to afford protection to the victims of trafficking and safeguard their rights, prevent trafficking and prosecute traffickers. It applies to all forms of trafficking, whether national or international, related or not to organised crime, and to all victims regardless of the type of exploitation to which they are subjected.

We believe that the fight against trafficking in human beings and action to protect victims should be a priority in our member states. We consider the Council of Europe convention to be the appropriate instrument to meet the urgent need for victim protection at European level. Consequently, we undertake to call upon our governments to sign the convention, if they have not already done so¹, to call upon our national parliaments to ratify it, and to call on the European Community to accede to it, to ensure that it enters into force at the earliest opportunity.

Signed: ²

VERMOT-MANGOLD, Ruth-Gaby, Suisse, SOC
AKHUNDOVA, Elmira, Azerbaijan, SOC
ALAY FERRER, Vicenç, Andorra, SOC
ALEVRAS Athanasios, Greece, SOC
ASPHJELL, Jorodd, Norway, SOC
ATANASOVA Aneliya, Bulgaria ALDE
ATEŞ Abdülkadir, Turkey SOC
AUSTIN, John, United Kingdom, SOC
BARGETZE, Rony, Liechtenstein, EPP/CD
BARNETT, Doris, Germany, SOC
BARTUMEU CASSANY, Jaume, Andorra, SOC
BEMELMANS-VIDEC, Marie-Louise Netherlands, EPP/CD
BİLGEHAN Gülsün, Turquie SOC
BJØRNSTAD, Vidar, Norway, SOC
BOUSAKLA, Mimount, Belgium, SOC
BRANGER, Jean-Guy, France EPP/CD
BROSBØL, Kirsten, Denmark, SOC
CEBECİ, Erol, Aslan, Turkey, EPP/CD
CHRISTODOULIDES, Doros, Cyprus, UEL
CHRISTOFFERSEN, Lise, Norway, SOC
CILEVIČS, Boriss, Latvia, SOC
CIRCENE, Ingrīda, Latvia, EPP/CD
CLIVETI, Minodora, Roumanie, SOC
Č URDOVÁ, Anna, Czech Republic, SOC
DAMANAKI, Maria, Greece, SOC
DIAS FERNANDES, Abilio, Portugal, UEL
DRAGASSAKIS, Ioannis, Greece, UEL
DUPRAZ, John, Switzerland, ALDE
EINARSSON, Mats, Sweden, UEL
EXNER, Václav, Czech Republic, UEL
FAUTRIER,Catherine, Monaco, EPP/CD
FERNÁNDEZ AGUILAR, Adolfo, Spain, EPP/CD
FOMENKO, Alexander, Russian Federation, UEL
FROMMELT, Doris, Liechtenstein, EPP/CD
GABURRO, Giuseppe, Italie, EPP/CD
GAJDŮŠKOVÁ, Alena, Czech Republic, SOC
GARDETTO, Jean-Charles, Monaco, EPP/CD
GRAF, Angelika, Germany, SOC
GROSS Andreas, Suisse, SOC
GÜLÇIÇEK, Ali Riza, Turkey, SOC
HÄGG, Carina, Sweden, SOC
HÖFER, Gerd, Germany, SOC
HUNAULT, Michel, France, EDG
HUSS, Jean, Luxembourg, SOC
ILAŞCU Ilie, Roumanie, NR
ILICALI, Mustafa, Turkey, EPP/CD
IVANOV, Sergei, Estonia, ALDE
IVANOVSKI Igor, "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", SOC
JAZŁOWIECKA, Danuta, Poland, EPP/CD
JURGENS, Erik, Netherlands, SOC
KANELLI, Liana, Greece, UEL
KARSKI, Karol, Poland, NR
KOX, Tiny, Netherlands, UEL
KUŽVART, Miloš, Czech Republic, SOC
LEUTHEUSSER-SCHNARRENBERGER, Sabine, Germany, ALDE
LINTNER, Eduard, Germany, EPP/CD
LINTONEN, Minna, Finland, SOC
LLOYD, Tony, United Kingdom, SOC
LUND, Rune, Denmark, UEL
McINTOSH, Andrew, United Kingdom, SOC
MALINS, Humfrey, United Kingdom, EDG
MARTINS, Alberto, Portugal, SOC
MASI, Tito, St Marino, ALDE
MELČÁK, Miloš, Czech Republic, SOC
MENDES BOTA, José, Portugal, EPP/CD
MENDONÇA, Ana Catarina, Portugal, SOC
MERCAN, Murat, Turkey, EPP/CD
MOONEY, Paschal, Ireland, ALDE
MORGANTI, Fausta, Saint-Marin, SOC
MÜLLER-SÖNKSEN, Burkhardt, Germany, ALDE
NAGHDALYAN, Hermine, Armenia, ALDE
NEGELE, Gebhard, Liechtenstein, EPP/CD
OHLSSON, Carina, Sweden, SOC
Ö HMAN, Conny, Sweden, SOC
Ö ZAL, İbrahim, Turkey, EPP/CD
PANGALOS, Theodoros, Greece, SOC
PAPADIMITRIOU, Elsa, Greece, EPP/CD
PEHLIVAN,Fatma, Belgium, SOC
PLATVOET, Leo, Netherlands, UEL
POSTOICO, Maria, Moldova, UEL
POTRATA, Majda, Slovenia, SOC
POURGOURIDES, Christos, Cyprus, EPP/CD
RUPPRECHT, Marlene, Germany, SOC
Lord, RUSSELL-JOHNSTON, Russel, United Kingdom, ALDE
SEVERIN, Adrian, Romania, SOC
SOBKO, Sergey, Russian Federation, UEL
STĂNOIU, Rodica, Mihaela, Roumanie, SOC
STANTCHEVA, Darinka, Bulgaria, ALDE
STEENBLOCK, Rainder, Germany, SOC
TEKELİOĞLU, Mehmet, Turkey, EPP/CD
TKÁČ, Vojtech, Slovakia, SOC
TOMASZEWSKA, Ewa, Poland, NR
TOMLINSON, John, United Kingdom, SOC
VARVITSIOTIS, Miltiadis, Greece, EPP/CD
VERA JARDIM, José, Portugal, SOC
WESTERLUND PANKE, Majléne, Sweden, SOC
WILLIAMS Betty, United Kingdom, SOC
WILLOTT, Jenny, United Kingdom, ALDE
WODARG, Wolfgang, Germany, SOC
WOHLWEND, Renate, Liechtenstein, EPP/CD
ZAPFL-HELBLING, Rosmarie, Suisse, EPP/CD
LALOY, Marie-José, Belgium, SOC
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Total = 102

¹ As of 9 March 2006, 25 Council of Europe member states had signed the Convention (Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia-Montenegro, Sweden, the "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" and Ukraine), but no one had ratified it.

²     SOC: Socialist Group
       EPP/CD: Group of the European People’s Party
       ALDE: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
       EDG: European Democratic Group
       UEL: Group of the Unified European Left
       NR: not registered in a group