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324 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime3. The Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornographyproposed that the preamble should contain a paragraph recognizing the vulnerabilityof children as distinct and separate from circumstances attendant upon the vulnerabilityof women, as well as reference to all pertinent human rights instruments, including theConvention on the Rights of the Child 10 and the 1980 Hague Convention on the CivilAspects of International Child Abduction (see A/AC.254/CRP.19).4. At the fifth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, Belgium, Poland and the UnitedStates submitted a reformulated version of the draft Protocol (A/AC.254/5/Add.13) at therequest of the Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee. At the informal consultations duringthe fifth session, it was suggested that that version be used in future negotiations(A/AC.254/19/Add.1, para. 17). One delegation suggested the words “especially womenand children” should follow the word “persons” every time it appeared in the text.5. At the sixth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, it was agreed to use the restructuredtext as the basis for further discussion of the draft protocol. At the same session ofthe Ad Hoc Committee, delegations noted that the words “each State Party” and “StatesParties” were used interchangeably throughout the text of the draft protocol. It was agreedto use the words “States Parties”.6. Further to what is mentioned in footnote 9, Belgium proposed at the ninth sessionof the Ad Hoc Committee that the preamble to the draft protocol should also includereference to the 1949 Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of theExploitation of the Prostitution of Others 11 (see A/AC.254/L.201).7. At its eleventh session, the Ad Hoc Committee considered, finalized and approvedthe preamble, as amended. The last amendments are reflected in the final text of the protocol,as included in the report of the Ad Hoc Committee (A/55/383, sect. IV, draft resolution,annex II), that was submitted to the General Assembly for adoption pursuant toresolution 54/126 of 17 December 1999.B. Approved text adopted by the General Assembly(see resolution 55/25, annex II)Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, EspeciallyWomen and Children, supplementing the United Nations Conventionagainst Transnational Organized CrimePreamble:The States Parties to this Protocol,Declaring that effective action to prevent and combat trafficking in persons,especially women and children, requires a comprehensive international approachin the countries of origin, transit and destination that includes measures to preventsuch trafficking, to punish the traffickers and to protect the victims of suchtrafficking, including by protecting their internationally recognized human rights,10United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.11Ibid., vol. 96, No. 1342