A/RES/67/145
Trafficking in women and girls
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;
23. 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;
24. Encourages Governments, in cooperation with intergovernmental and
civil society organizations, to undertake or strengthen campaigns aimed at clarifying
opportunities, limitations, rights and responsibilities with respect to 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;
25. Also encourages Governments to review and strengthen, as appropriate,
the enforcement of relevant labour and other laws within their territories or
jurisdictions that are aimed at, or have the effect of, requiring business enterprises,
including recruitment agencies, to prevent and combat human trafficking in supply
chains, and to periodically assess the adequacy of such laws and address any gaps;
26. Invites the business sector to consider the adoption of ethical codes of
conduct to ensure decent work and to prevent any form of exploitative practices that
foster trafficking;
27. 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;
28. 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;
29. 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;
30. Also invites Governments to intensify efforts aimed at the speedy
disposition of cases of trafficking in persons and, in cooperation with, inter alia,
intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, to devise, enforce and
strengthen systems and mechanisms for combating trafficking in persons;
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