10.
Urges Governments to consider signing and ratifying the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime and the protocols supplementing the Convention, particularly the Protocol to
Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children;
11.
Also urges Governments to consider signing and ratifying the Convention on the Rights of the
Child, and the Optional Protocol thereto on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and the
1999 Convention concerning the prohibition and immediate action for the elimination of the worst forms of child
labour (No. 182) of the International Labour Organization;
12.
Invites Governments to encourage Internet service providers to adopt or strengthen selfregulatory measures to promote the responsible use of the Internet with a view to eliminating trafficking in
women and children, in particular girls;
13.
Encourages Governments, in cooperation with non-governmental organizations, to undertake
campaigns aimed at clarifying opportunities, limitations and rights in the event of migration so as to enable
women to make informed decisions and to prevent them from becoming victims of trafficking;
14.
Calls upon concerned Governments to allocate resources, as appropriate, to provide
comprehensive programmes designed to heal and rehabilitate into society victims of trafficking, including
through job training, legal assistance and health care and by taking measures to cooperate with nongovernmental organizations to provide for the social, medical and psychological care of the victims;
15.
Encourages Governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, the human
rights treaty bodies, the special rapporteurs, especially the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, the
Special Rapporteur on the sale of children and the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, and
subsidiary bodies of the Commission to participate in and contribute to the work of the twenty-sixth session of
the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery in 2001 that will focus on the issue of trafficking;
16.
Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Commission, at its fifty-eighth session, with an
update on the report on activities of United Nations bodies and other international organizations pertaining to the
problem of trafficking in women and girls;
17.
Decides to continue its consideration of this question at its fifty-eighth session under the
appropriate agenda item.
75th meeting
24 April 2001
[Adopted without a vote.]
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