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320 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeArgentina (A/AC.254/8)“Draft elements for an agreement on the prevention, suppression and punishmentof international trafficking in women and children, supplementary to theConvention against Transnational Organized Crime“Preamble“The States Parties to this Agreement,“Considering the need to supplement the provisions of the Convention againstTransnational Organized Crime by the adoption of an agreement that deals in particularwith international trafficking in women and children,“Aware that international trafficking in women and children constitutes a universalconcern,“Bearing in mind that these two categories of person are more vulnerable thanmen to the risk of being victims of certain types of illicit acts,“Bearing in mind also that, while there is a wide variety of international legalinstruments containing provisions aimed at combating sexual exploitation of womenand children, in particular the Convention on the Rights of the Child 1 and theConvention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation ofthe Prostitution of Others, 2 there is no such instrument whose specific objective is todeal with the problem of international trafficking in children for any purpose or oftrafficking in both categories of person by criminal organizations,“Convinced of the need to establish an agreement for the prevention, suppressionand punishment of these forms of illegal conduct,“Reaffirming the importance of international cooperation in the effective preventionand suppression of unlawful acts of this kind,“Adopt the following Protocol:”Second session: 8-12 March 1999Argentina and United States of America (A/AC.254/4/Add.3/Rev.1)“Revised draft Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking inWomen and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Conventionagainst Transnational Organized Crime 3“The States Parties to this Protocol,“Taking note of the United Nations Convention against Transnational OrganizedCrime (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Convention’),1United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.2Ibid., vol. 96, No. 1342.3The proposal was submitted by Argentina and the United States of America pursuant to the commitment they undertookat the first session of the Ad Hoc Committee (see A/AC.254/9). It superseded the proposal submitted by the UnitedStates (A/AC.254/4/Add.3) and that submitted by Argentina (A/AC.254/8) and took into account comments made on thosetwo proposals at the first session of the Ad Hoc Committee (see in particular the comments submitted by Australia andCanada contained in document A/AC.254/5/Add.3).