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14. Encourages Governments, in cooperation with intergovernmental and
non-governmental organizations, to undertake campaigns aimed at clarifying
opportunities, limitations and rights in the event of migration so as to enable women
to make informed decisions and to prevent them from becoming victims of
trafficking;
15. Also encourages Governments to intensify collaboration with
non-governmental organizations to develop and implement programmes for
effective counselling, training and reintegration into society of victims of trafficking
and programmes that provide shelter and helplines to victims or potential victims;
16. Calls upon Governments to take steps to ensure that the treatment of
victims of trafficking, as well as all measures taken against trafficking in persons, in
particular those that affect the victims of such trafficking, pay particular attention to
the needs of women and girls and are applied with full respect for the human rights
of those victims and are consistent with internationally recognized principles of
non-discrimination, including the prohibition of racial discrimination and the
availability of appropriate legal redress, which may include measures that offer
victims the possibility of obtaining compensation for damage suffered;
17. Invites Governments to take steps to ensure that criminal justice
procedures and witness protection programmes are sensitive to the particular situation
of trafficked women and girls and that they are enabled to make complaints to the
police or other authorities, as appropriate, and to be available when required by the
criminal justice system, and to ensure that during this time they have access to
protection and social, medical, financial and legal assistance, as appropriate;
18. Also invites Governments to consider preventing, within the legal
framework and in accordance with national policies, victims of trafficking in
persons, in particular women and girls, from being prosecuted for their illegal entry
or residence, bearing in mind that they are victims of exploitation;
19. Further invites Governments to encourage Internet service providers to
adopt or strengthen self-regulatory measures to promote the responsible use of the
Internet with a view to eliminating trafficking in women and children, in particular
girls;
20. Invites the business sector, in particular the tourism and
telecommunications industries, including 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
rights of trafficked persons and services available to victims of trafficking;
21. Stresses the need for systematic data collection 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;
22. Urges Governments to strengthen national programmes to combat
trafficking in persons, especially women and girls, through increased bilateral,
regional and international cooperation, taking into account innovative approaches and
best practices, and invites Governments, United Nations bodies and organizations,
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;
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