A/RES/73/146
Trafficking in women and girls
appropriate, social, medical, financial and legal assistance, including the possibility
of obtaining compensation for damages suffered;
42. Also invites Governments to intensify efforts aimed at the speedy
disposition of cases of human trafficking and, in cooperation with, inter a lia,
intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, to devise, enforce and
strengthen systems and mechanisms for combating human trafficking;
43. Further invites Governments to encourage media providers, including
Internet service providers, to adopt or strengthen self-regulatory measures to promote
the responsible use of media, particularly the Internet, with a view to eliminating the
exploitation of women and children, in particular girls, which could foster human
trafficking;
44. Encourages Governments to develop and implement strategies that
promote safe access to media and to information and communications technologies
in order to prevent and eradicate trafficking in women and girls, including increasing
women’s and girls’ digital literacy and access to information;
45. Invites the business sector, in particular the tourism, travel and
telecommunications industries, relevant recruitment agencies and mass media
organizations, to cooperate with Governments in eliminating trafficking in women
and children, in particular girls, including through the dissemination by the media of
information regarding the dangers of human trafficking, the means used by
traffickers, the rights of persons subjected to human trafficking and the services
available to them;
46. Stresses the need for the systematic collection of data disaggregated by
sex, age and other relevant factors and comprehensive studies at both the national and
the international levels, and in this regard takes note of the publication of the Global
Report on Trafficking in Persons, prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime, and the development of common methodologies and internationally
defined indicators to make it possible to develop relevant and comparable figures,
and encourages Governments to enhance information-sharing and data-collection
capacity as a way of promoting cooperation to combat human trafficking;
47. Invites Governments, United Nations bodies, agencies and special
mechanisms, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and the private
sector to continue collaborative and joint research and studies on trafficking in women
and girls that can serve as a basis for policy formulation or change;
48. Invites Governments, with the support of the United Nations, when
necessary, and other intergovernmental organizations, taking into account best
practices, to formulate training manuals and other informational materials and to
provide training for law enforcement, judicial and other relevant officials and medical
and support personnel, with a view to sensitizing them to the special needs of women
and girl victims of human trafficking;
49. Calls upon Governments, and encourages relevant intergovernmental
bodies and international organizations, to ensure that milit ary, peacekeeping and
humanitarian personnel deployed in conflict, post-conflict and other emergency
situations are provided with training on conduct that does not promote, facilitate or
exploit trafficking in women and girls, including for sexual exploita tion, and to raise
the awareness of such personnel about the potential risks that victims of conflict and
other emergency situations, including natural disasters, face of being subjected to
human trafficking;
50. Invites States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the
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