protection of the rights of women and girls and to punish the perpetrators, including customers, through both criminal and civil measures; "(c) Stepping up cooperation and concerted action by all relevant law enforcement authorities and institutions with a view to dismantling national, regional and international networks in trafficking; "(d) Allocating resources to provide comprehensive programmes designed to heal and rehabilitate into society victims of trafficking, including through job training and the provision of legal assistance and confidential health care, as well as by taking measures to cooperate with non-governmental organizations to provide for the social, medical and psychological care of the victims of trafficking; "(e) Developing considering enacting trafficking, and all to the protection of educational and training programmes and policies and legislation aimed at preventing sex tourism and forms of sexual exploitation, giving special emphasis young women and children; "3. Calls upon Governments to take all appropriate measures, including legislation, to suppress all forms of traffic in women and exploitation of the prostitution of women; "4. Encourages Governments, relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations to cooperate with one another so as to facilitate the development of anti-trafficking measures and to encourage wider public awareness of the problem; "5. Calls upon all Governments to take appropriate measures to prevent misuse and exploitation by traffickers of such economic activities as the development of tourism and the export of labour and the use of information technology, including cyberspace; "6. Encourages the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women and the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, as well as the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery of the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, to continue to pay special attention to the problem of trafficking in women and girl children, and to submit a report thereon to the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-second session; "7. Encourages the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to continue to consider the problem of trafficking in human persons in the context of its discussion on the question of organized transnational crime; "8. Welcomes the proposal contained in General Assembly resolution 51/120 of 12 December 1996 for the elaboration of an international convention against organized transnational crime; "9. Supports the work of the working group of the Commission on Human Rights on the elaboration of a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and expresses the hope that the working group will make -60-

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