Trafficking in women and girls 2016, para. 38

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Urges Governments to provide or strengthen training for, and to raise awareness among, law enforcement, judicial, immigration and other relevant officials on the prevention and combating of trafficking in persons, including the sexual exploitation of women and girls, and in this regard calls upon Governments to ensure that the treatment of victims of trafficking, especially by law enforcement officials, immigration officers, consular officials, social workers, health service providers and other first response officials, is conducted with full respect for the human rights of those victims and with gender and age sensitivity and observes the principles of non-discrimination, including the prohibition of racial discrimination;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations General Assembly
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2016
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
UNGA resolution, Trafficking in women and girls (2016), A/RES/71/167, OP 38.
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OP
Paragraph number
38