7. Calls upon Governments to criminalize trafficking in women and children in all its forms and to condemn and penalize traffickers and intermediaries, while ensuring protection and assistance to the victims of trafficking with full respect for their human rights; 8. Encourages Governments to take steps to ensure for victims of trafficking respect for all their human rights and fundamental freedoms, including taking steps to ensure that all legislation related to combating trafficking is gender-sensitive and provides protection for the human rights of women and girls and against violations committed against women and girls; 9. Calls upon Governments to ensure that the treatment of victims of trafficking, especially women and girls, as well as all measures taken against trafficking in persons, in particular those that affect the victims of such trafficking, are consistent with internationally recognized principles of non-discrimination, including the prohibition of racial discrimination and the availability of appropriate legal redress; 10. Encourages Governments to conclude bilateral, subregional, regional and international agreements to address the problem of trafficking in women and children, in particular girls; 11. Urges Governments to consider signing and ratifying the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the protocols supplementing the Convention, particularly the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children; 12. Also urges Governments to consider signing and ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as a matter of priority, and to consider signing and ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and the 1999 Convention concerning the prohibition and immediate action for the elimination of the worst forms of child labour (No. 182) of the International Labour Organization; 13. Invites Governments to encourage Internet service providers to adopt or strengthen selfregulatory measures to promote the responsible use of the Internet with a view to eliminating trafficking in women and children, in particular girls; 14. Encourages the business sector, in particular the tourist industry and Internet providers, to develop codes of conduct, with a view to preventing trafficking in persons and protecting the victims of such traffic, especially those in prostitution, against gender-based and racial discrimination and promoting their rights, dignity and security; 15. Encourages Governments, in cooperation with intergovernmental organizations and nongovernmental organizations, to undertake information campaigns, targeted at women and girls, aimed at clarifying opportunities, limitations and rights in the event of migration so as to enable women to make informed decisions and to prevent them from becoming victims of trafficking; 16. Calls upon concerned Governments to allocate resources, as appropriate, to provide comprehensive programmes designed to heal and rehabilitate into society victims of trafficking, including through job training, legal assistance and health care, and by taking measures to cooperate with nongovernmental organizations to provide for the social, medical and psychological care of the victims; 17. Requests Governments to establish comprehensive policies, programmes and other measures, including through the collection of quantitative and qualitative data, to prevent victimization of women and girls and to protect victims of trafficking from revictimization; 18. Urges Governments to provide or strengthen training for law enforcement, immigration and other relevant officials in the prevention of trafficking in persons which should focus on methods used in preventing such trafficking, prosecuting the traffickers and protecting the rights of victims, including protecting the victims from traffickers; the training should also take into account the need to consider human rights and child-and-gender-sensitive issues and it should encourage cooperation with non-governmental organizations, other relevant organizations and other elements of civil society; page 3