(e)
Developing educational and training programmes and policies and considering enacting
legislation aimed at preventing sex tourism and trafficking, giving special emphasis to the protection of young
women and children;
5.
Invites Governments, with the support of the United Nations, to formulate manuals for the
training of personnel who receive and/or hold in temporary custody victims of gender-based violence, including
trafficking, with a view to sensitizing them to the special needs of the victims;
6.
Encourages relevant United Nations bodies and organizations, including the United Nations
International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, the United Nations Development
Fund for Women, the United Nations Children's Fund, the International Labour Organization and the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, as well as the International Organization for
Migration, to contribute to the preparation of guidelines for the use of Governments in the elaboration of their
manuals, in cooperation with relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations;
7.
Encourages the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to
continue to include the issue of traffic in women and girls in its programme of work under its advisory, training
and information activities, with a view to providing assistance to Governments, upon their request, in instituting
preventive measures against trafficking through education and appropriate information campaigns;
8.
Invites the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences and the
Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography of the Commission on
Human Rights and the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery of the Sub-Commission on
Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities to continue addressing, within their respective
mandates, the problem of trafficking in women and girls as a priority concern, and to recommend, in their reports,
measures to combat such phenomena;
9.
Invites relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to provide advisory
services to Governments, upon their request, in planning and setting up rehabilitation programmes for victims of
trafficking and in training personnel who will be directly involved in the implementation of those programmes;
10.
Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Commission, at its fifty-fifth session, with his
report to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session on the implementation of General Assembly resolution
52/98 of 12 December 1997;
11.
Decides to continue its consideration of this question at its
fifty-fifth session under the appropriate agenda item.
51st meeting
17 April 1998
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. XV.]
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