14.
Calls upon concerned Governments to allocate resources 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 non-governmental organizations to
provide for the social, medical and psychological care of the victims;
15.
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;
16.
Encourages Governments to strengthen cooperation to combat trafficking and rehabilitate
victims, including through, inter alia:
(a)
Technical cooperation to developing countries requesting assistance;
(b)
Sharing of experience, best practices and lessons learned;
(c)
Consultation mechanisms, such as the regional consultation process organized in cooperation
with the International Organization for Migration;
17.
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 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;
18.
Encourages the Inter-Agency Committee on Women and Gender Equality to continue to
address the issue as part of the integrated follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women;
19.
Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Commission, at its fifty-sixth session, with a
report on activities of United Nations bodies and other international organizations pertaining to the problem of
trafficking in women and girls;
20.
Decides to continue its consideration of this question at its
fifty-sixth session under the appropriate agenda item.
55th meeting
26 April 1999
[Adopted without a vote. See chap. XII.]
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