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32. 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 migrat ion, as
well as information on the risks of irregular migration and the ways and means used
by traffickers, to enable women to make informed decisions and to prevent them
from becoming victims of trafficking;
33. Strongly urges Governments to ensure coherence between the laws on
and measures responding to migration, labour and trafficking to protect the human
rights of migrant women and girls throughout the migration and employment
process as well as the repatriation process, when applicable, and to provi de effective
protection against trafficking;
34. Invites States, together with relevant United Nations entities, to
undertake further research into the links between migration and trafficking to guide
the development of age- and gender-sensitive policies and programmes that address
the vulnerability of women and girl migrants;
35. 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;
36. 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;
37. Encourages Governments to intensify collaboration with nongovernmental 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 in ways that protect their privacy and identity;
38. 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, health service
providers 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;
39. Invites Member States to provide training for law enforcement and
border control officials, as well as medical personnel, in identifying potential cases
of trafficking in persons for the purpose of organ removal;
40. 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
with due regard for the protection of their privacy and their identity, and are
available, when required, to 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;
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