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The Brussels Declaration, prepared in the spirit of contributions submitted in the preparations of the Conference on Preventing
and Combating Trafficking in Human Beings - Global Challenge for the 21st Century -, on 18-20 September 2002 and in the spirit
of contributions made at the Conference, aims at further developing European and international co-operation, concrete measures,
standards, best practices and mechanisms to prevent and combat trafficking in human beings.
The coalition of committed governments, international bodies and NGOs is called upon to take concrete measures and to intensify
co-operation in the fields of prevention, victim protection and assistance, and police and judicial co-operation, in particular
with a view to achieving a swift and sustainable reduction of trafficking in human beings. Participants at the conference,
such as the EU Member States, Candidate Countries, neighbouring countries, international organisations (IOs), inter-governmental
organisations (IGOs), non governmental organisations (NGOs) and the institutions of the European Union underlined their intention
to develop the work against trafficking in human beings on the basis of the draft recommendations, standards and best practices
of the Annex to this Brussels Declaration on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Human Beings.
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