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31. 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 trafficking;
32. 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 trafficking, the means used by traffickers, the
rights of trafficked persons and the services available to victims of trafficking;
33. Stresses the need for the systematic collection of sex- and
age-disaggregated data and comprehensive studies at both the national and the
international levels 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 the
trafficking problem;
34. Invites Governments, United Nations bodies, agencies and special
mechanisms, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and the private
sector to undertake collaborative and joint research and studies on trafficking in
women and girls that can serve as a basis for policy formulation or change;
35. 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
provide training for law enforcement, judicial and other relevant officers, and
medical and support personnel, with a view to sensitizing them to the special needs
of women and girl victims;
36. Encourages Governments and relevant intergovernmental bodies and
international organizations to ensure that military, 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 exploitation, and to raise the
awareness of such personnel of the potential risks to victims of conflict and other
emergency situations, including natural disasters, of being trafficked;
37. Invites States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the
International Covenants on Human Rights 26 to include information and statistics on
trafficking in women and girls as part of their national reports to their respective
committees and to work towards developing a common methodology and statistics
to obtain comparable data;
38. Invites States to continue to contribute to the United Nations Voluntary
Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery and to the United Nations Voluntary
Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children;
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