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;
2.
Encourages Governments, relevant organizations and bodies of the
United Nations system, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental
organizations to gather and share information relative to all aspects of
trafficking in women and girl children in order to facilitate the development of
anti-trafficking measures, and to adopt appropriate measures to create wider
public awareness of the problem;
3.
Calls upon all Governments to take appropriate measures to prevent the
misuse and exploitation by traffickers of such economic activities as the
development of tourism and the export of labour;
4.
Welcomes General Assembly resolution 50/167 of 22 December 1995, in
which the Assembly invited the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights, in addressing the obstacles to the realization of the human rights of
women, in particular, through his contacts with the Special Rapporteur of the
Commission on Human Rights on the sale of children, child prostitution and child
pornography, to include the traffic in women and girls among his priority
concerns;
5.
Welcomes also the request by the General Assembly to the Commission on
Human Rights to encourage the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery of
the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities
to continue to address the issue of the traffic in women and girls under its
draft programme of action on the traffic in persons and the exploitation of the
prostitution of others; 32/
6.
Welcomes the decision of the General Assembly to focus the
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December 1996, on the problem
of trafficking in human persons, especially women and children, and to devote
one meeting of the fifty-first session of the General Assembly to the discussion
of that problem; 33/
7.
Decides to remain seized of this matter and to examine, at its
forty-second session, the reports of the Special Rapporteurs and relevant
organizations and bodies, with a view to making appropriate recommendations to
the General Assembly at its fifty-third session, through the Economic and Social
Council.
32/
General Assembly resolution 50/167, para. 9.
33/
Ibid., para. 12.
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