steps to ensure that all legislation related to combating trafficking is gender-sensitive and provides protection for the human rights of women and girls and against violations committed against women and girls; 12. Calls upon Governments to ensure that the treatment of victims of trafficking in persons, especially women and children, as well as all measures taken against trafficking in persons, in particular those that affect the victims of such trafficking, are consistent with internationally recognized principles of non-discrimination, including the prohibition of racial discrimination and the availability of appropriate legal redress; 13. Encourages Governments to conclude bilateral, subregional, regional and international agreements to address the problem of trafficking in persons, especially women and children, in particular girls; 14. Urges Governments to consider signing and ratifying the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the protocols supplementing the Convention, in particular the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children; 15. Also urges Governments to consider, as a matter of priority, signing and ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child and to consider signing and ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and the Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999 (No. 182) of the International Labour Organization; 16. 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 the trafficking in persons, especially women and children, in particular girls; 17. Urges Governments to consider establishing mechanisms, where appropriate, in cooperation with the international community to combat the use of the Internet to facilitate trafficking in persons and crimes related to sexual exploitation and to strengthen international cooperation to investigate and prosecute trafficking facilitated by the use of the Internet; 18. Encourages the business sector, in particular the tourism industry and Internet providers, to develop codes of conduct with a view to preventing trafficking in persons and protecting the victims of such traffic, especially those in prostitution, against gender-based and racial discrimination and promoting their rights, dignity and security; 19. Encourages Governments, in cooperation with intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations, to study, by applying a gender perspective, the vulnerable situation of potential victims of trafficking, especially women and girls, and to undertake information campaigns targeted at potential victims of trafficking, especially women and girls, aimed at clarifying opportunities, limitations and rights in the event of migration so as to enable them to make informed decisions to prevent them from being victims of trafficking; page 4