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including awareness-raising campaigns against human trafficking and slavery,
including modern slavery, targeted at groups that are at increased risk of becoming
victims of human trafficking, as well as at those who may fuel the demand that
contributes to human trafficking;
21. Reiterates the importance of continued coordination among, inter alia, the
Special Rapporteurs of the Human Rights Council on trafficking in persons,
especially women and children, on the sale and sexual exploitation of children,
including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material,
and on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, in
order to avoid unnecessary duplication in their activities in the fulfilment of their
mandates;
22. Urges Governments to strengthen measures to eliminate sex tourism
demand, especially for children, through all possible preventive actions, including
legislative measures and other relevant policies and programmes, and to develop age appropriate educational and training programmes and policies aimed at preventing
sex tourism and human trafficking, giving special emphasis to the protection of young
women and children;
23. Encourages the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the World
Tourism Organization and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization to promote their global campaign urging travellers to support the fight
against human trafficking, especially trafficking in women and girls;
24. Calls upon Member States to take into consideration the challenges
presented by new methods of recruiting victims of human trafficking, such as the
misuse of the Internet by human traffickers, in particular for recruiting children, to
take measures to develop targeted awareness-raising campaigns, including for law
enforcement, front-line service providers and at-risk industries, to identify the signs
of human trafficking, and to develop specialized training for law enforcement and
criminal justice practitioners;
25. Encourages Member States to establish or strengthen national
programmes and to engage in bilateral, subregional, regional and international
cooperation, including by forging regional initiatives or plans of action, 31 to address
the problem of human trafficking through, inter alia, the enhancement of informationsharing, data disaggregated by sex and age, specific data collection and other
technical capacities and mutual legal assistance, as well as the combating of
corruption and laundering of proceeds derived from human trafficking, including for
the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation, and to ensure, as appropriate, that
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Such as the Bali Process on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational
Crime, the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative against Trafficking, the Action Plan for the
Asia-Pacific region of the Asian Regional Initiative agai nst Trafficking in Persons, Especially
Women and Children (see A/C.3/55/3, annex), the initiatives of the European Union on a
comprehensive European policy and programmes on trafficking in human beings, as expr essed
most recently in the European Union plan on best practices, standards and procedures for
combating and preventing trafficking in human beings, adopted in December 2005, the activities
of the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Coo peration in Europe, the South
Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Convention on Preventing and Combating
Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution, the Organization of American States
Meeting of National Authorities on Trafficking in Persons, the Agreement on the Cooperation of
the Commonwealth of Independent States in Combating Trafficking in Persons, Human Organs
and Tissues, the Inter-American Programme for the Prevention and Eradication of Commercial
Sexual Exploitation and Smuggling of and Trafficking in Children, and the activities of the
International Labour Organization and the International Organization for Migration in this field.
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