A/HRC/17/35 Recovery 65. States should provide trafficked persons with assistance in realizing their full recovery on a non-conditional basis, duly taking into account the individual circumstances and needs of each trafficked person. 66. States should provide trafficked persons with a reflection and recovery period of at least 90 days once they are identified as trafficked persons in order to ensure their full physical and psychological recovery and to make an informed decision about their course of action. This period should be provided separately and independently of temporary residence permits and trafficked persons should be given medical, psychological, legal, social and other assistance they may require for their recovery during this period on an unconditional basis. Compensation 67. As a strategy to enhance the right of trafficked persons to successfully seek compensation, States should ensure that trafficked persons are equipped with the means, assistance and status necessary to exercise this right, namely, access to information, free legal assistance and other assistance necessary to ensure their full recovery, and regular residence status. 68. Particular attention should be paid in legal proceedings involving trafficked persons to procedural guarantees such as the right to privacy, safety and witness protection. 69. Increased efforts should be made to train key stakeholders, in particular prosecutors and judges, on laws and issues pertaining to trafficking in persons. Training, education and sensitization aimed at other actors, and society at large, could also make a crucial contribution to the effective implementation of the right to an effective remedy for trafficked persons, including through the promotion of a victims’ rights culture and measures to counter stigma. 70. States should establish legislative provisions for the confiscation of assets and proceeds of trafficking offences, and for the use of such assets and proceeds to compensate trafficked persons. States should also adequately train law enforcement officials in identifying, tracing, freezing and confiscating assets connected to the crime of trafficking. 71. Where State-funded compensation schemes for victims of crime exist, States should abolish eligibility criteria which have the effect of preventing trafficked persons from seeking compensation, such as nationality and long-term residence requirements. Where no compensation scheme exists, States should consider establishing one that provides compensation to trafficked persons and using confiscated assets and tax deductible voluntary donations to finance such a scheme. Compensation through such scheme should be available to all groups of trafficked persons on a non-discriminatory basis. Provision of information 72. States should establish and effectively implement obligations on the part of relevant authorities and officials who come into contact with trafficked persons to provide them with information on the right to a remedy, mechanisms and procedures available to exercise this right, and how and where to obtain necessary assistance. 73. States should develop guidelines on the appropriate form, content and language of the information to be provided to trafficked persons and ensure that they properly apply the guidelines. In such guidelines, States should ensure that information is easily 18