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32. Calls upon Governments to promote the empowerment of women and
girls, including survivors of human trafficking, in all stages of humanitarian response
and to consider providing adequate access to redress;
33. Encourages Governments, in line with their obligations under
international law, to prevent, combat and eradicate human trafficking in the context
of international migration, including by identifying and supporting victims of human
trafficking, and to cooperate with relevant stakeholders to undertake or strength en
campaigns to inform migrants, including migrant women, of the risks associated with
human trafficking;
34. Strongly urges Governments to ensure coherence between the laws on and
measures responding to migration, labour and human 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 provide effective
protection against human trafficking;
35. Invites States, together with relevant United Nations entities, to undertake
further research into the links between migration and human trafficking to guide the
development of age- and gender-sensitive policies and programmes that address the
vulnerability of women and girl migrants;
36. 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;
37. 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 human trafficking;
38. Encourages Governments to intensify collaboration with non-governmental
organizations, including women’s organizations, to develop and implement gender- and
age-sensitive programmes for effective counselling, training and reintegration into
society of victims of human trafficking and programmes that provide shelter and
helplines to victims or potential victims in ways that protect their privacy and identity ;
39. 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 human trafficking, including the sexual
exploitation of women and girls, and in this regard calls upon Governments to ensure
that the treatment of victims of human trafficking, especially by law enforcement
officials, immigration officers, consular officials, social workers, health service
providers and other first response officials, is co nducted 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;
40. Invites Member States to provide training for law enforcement and border
control officials, as well as medical personnel, in identifying potential cases of human
trafficking for the purpose of organ removal;
41. Invites Governments to take steps to ensure that criminal justice
procedures and witness protection programmes are sensitive to the particular situation
of women and girls subjected to human trafficking 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
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