UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY · 2025-12-18
Improving the coordination of efforts against trafficking in persons
A/RES/80/228 · Adopted 18 December 2025
Improve coordination of international efforts against trafficking in people.
Trafficking involves exploiting people through coercion, deception or other abuses. This resolution concerns coordinating efforts against it; trafficking is different from migration itself. The vote concerns this resolution as a whole. Adopted on 2025-12-18: 139 for, 3 against and 38 abstentions. Your board uses eight selected recorded country votes. The record does not establish a country's motives.
Overall recorded result
- For
- 139
- Against
- 3
- Abstain
- 38
These are totals for the full recorded vote. The country table below shows only the eight countries in our puzzle dataset. An absent country is not counted as abstaining.
Selected countries at a glance
For the eight countries in our puzzle dataset:
- FOR: Brazil, Australia, Belarus
- AGAINST: Israel, Argentina, United States
- ABSTAIN: Austria, Estonia
Eight recorded country votes
These eight countries are the selected Eight Votes challenge, not the complete UN voting roster. The vote alone does not establish a government’s motive or its position on the broader subject.
| Country | Recorded vote |
|---|---|
| Argentina | AGAINST |
| Australia | FOR |
| Austria | ABSTAIN |
| Belarus | FOR |
| Brazil | FOR |
| Estonia | ABSTAIN |
| Israel | AGAINST |
| United States | AGAINST |
Source and context
UN recorded plenary vote ↗ (external source)
Resolution A/RES/80/228 ↗ (external source)
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