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4.
Urges Governments to take appropriate measures to address the
problem of trafficking in women and girl children and to ensure that the
victims are provided with the necessary assistance, support, legal advice,
protection, treatment and rehabilitation, and urges Governments to cooperate
in this matter;
5.
Calls upon all Governments to take appropriate measures to prevent
the misuse and exploitation by traffickers of economic activities, such as the
development of tourism and the export of labour;
6.
Encourages Member States to consider signing and ratifying or
acceding to the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and
of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others, 11/ the Slavery
Convention 12/ and all other relevant international instruments;
7.
Invites Governments concerned and relevant intergovernmental and
non-governmental organizations to adopt appropriate measures to create a
better public awareness of the problem;
8.
Draws the attention of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on
Human Rights on violence against women and the Working Group on Contemporary
Forms of Slavery of the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and
Protection of Minorities to the problem of trafficking in women and girl
children;
9.
Invites the World Summit for Social Development, the Fourth World
Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace and the Ninth
United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of
Offenders to consider including in their respective programmes of action the
subject of the traffic in women and girl children;
10.
Recommends that the
children be given consideration
international legal instruments
to measures to strengthen them,
integrity;
problem of trafficking in women and girl
within the implementation of all relevant
and, if need be, that consideration be given
without undermining their legal authority and
11.
Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly
at its fiftieth session, under the item entitled "Advancement of women", a
preliminary report on the implementation of the present resolution.
94th plenary meeting
23 December 1994
11/
Resolution 317 (IV), annex.
12/
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