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that make women and girls vulnerable to trafficking; to discourage, with a view to
eliminating, the demand that fosters all forms of exploitation, including sexual
exploitation and forced labour; to publicize the laws, regulations and penalties
relating to this issue; and to emphasize that trafficking is a serious crime;
20. Calls upon concerned Governments to allocate resources, as appropriate,
to provide access to appropriate programmes for the physical, psychological and
social recovery of victims of trafficking, including through job training, legal
assistance in a language that they can understand and health care, including for
HIV/AIDS, and by taking measures to cooperate with intergovernmental and
non-governmental organizations to provide for the social, medical and
psychological care of the victims;
21. Encourages Governments, in cooperation with intergovernmental and
non-governmental organizations, to undertake or strengthen campaigns aimed at
clarifying opportunities, limitations and rights in the event of migration, as well as
information on the risks of irregular migration and the ways and means used by
traffickers, so as to enable women to make informed decisions and to prevent them
from becoming victims of trafficking;
22. Also encourages Governments to intensify collaboration with
non-governmental organizations to develop and implement gender- and age-sensitive
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;
23. Urges Governments to provide or strengthen training for, and to raise
awareness among, law enforcement, judicial, immigration and other relevant
officials on the prevention and combating of trafficking in persons, including the
sexual exploitation of women and girls, and in this regard calls upon Governments
to ensure that the treatment of victims of trafficking, especially by law enforcement
officials, immigration officers, consular officials, social workers and other first
response officials, is conducted with full respect for the human rights of those
victims and with gender and age sensitivity and observes the principles of
non-discrimination, including the prohibition of racial discrimination;
24. 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 supported and assisted, as
appropriate, in making complaints to the police or other authorities without fear and
being available when required by the criminal justice system, and to ensure that
during this time they have access to gender- and age-sensitive protection and, as
appropriate, social, medical, financial and legal assistance, including the possibility
of obtaining compensation for damages suffered;
25. Also 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;
26. Invites the business sector, in particular the tourism, travel 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
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