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concerned with traumatic stress, taking into account existing research
material or studies on the subject;
7.
Calls upon all Governments to criminalize trafficking in women and
girls in all its forms and to condemn and penalize all those offenders
involved, including intermediaries, whether their offence was committed in
their own or in a foreign country, while ensuring that the victims of these
practices are not penalized, and to penalize persons in authority found guilty
of sexually assaulting victims of trafficking in their custody;
8.
Urges Governments concerned to support comprehensive practical
approaches by the international community to assist women and children victims
of transnational trafficking to return home and to be reintegrated in their
home societies;
9.
Invites relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental
organizations to provide advisory services to Governments, upon their request,
in planning and setting up rehabilitation programmes for victims of
trafficking and in training personnel who will be directly involved in the
implementation of those programmes;
10.
Encourages Governments, institutions and non-governmental
organizations to take preventive and assistance measures, including by
establishing helplines to enable victims or potential victims of trafficking
to seek assistance, and to provide targeted training to those groups dealing
with this problem, including law enforcement and judicial personnel, using as
far as possible female police officers to assist victims;
11.
Invites 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 violence against women, its causes and consequences and 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;
12.
Invites States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the
Child to include information and statistics on trafficking in women and girls
as part of their national reports to the Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women, taking into account the general recommendation
of the Committee, and to the Committee on the Rights of the Child,
respectively;
13.
Encourages the Inter-Agency Committee on Women and Gender Equality
to continue to address the issue as part of the integrated follow-up to the
Fourth World Conference on Women;
14.
Encourages all Governments to develop methodologies and to collect
national information, including statistical data, on trafficking in women and
girls in countries with special vulnerability;
15.
Encourages countries with special vulnerability to conduct
campaigns designed to increase public awareness of the problem;
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