in order to eliminate trafficking in women, including by strengthening existing legislation with a view to
providing better protection of the rights of women and girls and to punishing the perpetrators, 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, legal assistance and confidential health care and 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 educational and training programmes and policies and considering enacting legislation aimed at
preventing sex tourism and trafficking, giving special emphasis to the protection of young women and children;
4. Invites Governments to take steps to ensure for victims of trafficking the respect of all their human rights and
fundamental freedoms;
5. Also invites Governments, with the support of the United Nations, to formulate manuals for the training of
personnel who receive and/or hold in temporary custody victims of gender-based violence, including trafficking,
with a view to sensitizing them to the special needs of victims;
6. Encourages, in this regard, relevant United Nations bodies and organizations, including the United Nations
International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, the United Nations Development
Fund for Women, the United Nations Children's Fund, the International Labour Organization and the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, as well as the International Organization for
Migration, to contribute to the preparation of guidelines for the use of Governments in the elaboration of their
manuals, in cooperation with all relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, including
those concerned with traumatic stress, taking into account existing research material or studies on the subject;
7. Notes with appreciation the report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and
consequences (E/CN.4/1997/47 and Add.1-4) and the report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children,
child prostitution and child pornography (E/CN.4/1997/95 and Add.1 and 2), particularly with respect to the
traffic in persons, and encourages them to continue to address this problem among their priority concerns;
8. Encourages the Centre for Human Rights to include the issue of traffic in women and girls in its programme
of work under its advisory, training and information activities, with a view to providing assistance to
Governments, upon their request, in instituting preventive measures against trafficking through education and
appropriate information campaigns;
9. Requests the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities to encourage its
Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery to continue to address the issue of the traffic in women
and girls under its Programme of Action for the Prevention of the Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the
Prostitution of Others (see E/CN.4/Sub.2/1995/28/Add.1);
10. Invites relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to provide advisory services to
Governments, upon their request, in planning and setting up rehabilitation programmes for victims of trafficking
and in training personnel who will be directly involved in the implementation of those programmes;
11. Welcomes the decision of the Economic and Social Council to devote its coordination segment of 1997 to
mainstreaming a gender perspective;
12. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Commission, at its fifty-fourth session, with his report to the
General Assembly at its fifty-second session on the implementation of General Assembly resolution 51/66 of
12 December 1996;
13. Decides to continue its consideration of the question at its fifty-fourth session under the relevant agenda item.
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