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to enhance, in this regard, preventive measures, including legislative measures, to deter
exploiters of trafficked persons and to ensure their accountability;
(h)
international
persons and
international
the Internet;
To establish mechanisms, where appropriate, in cooperation with the
community, to combat the use of the Internet to facilitate trafficking in
crimes related to sexual or other forms of exploitation, and to strengthen
cooperation to investigate and prosecute trafficking facilitated by the use of
(i)
To provide or strengthen training for law enforcement, immigration, criminal
justice and other relevant officials, including personnel participating in peacekeeping
operations, in preventing and responding effectively to trafficking in persons, including the
identification and treatment of victims with full respect for their human rights;
(j)
To conduct information campaigns for the general public, including children,
aimed at promoting awareness of the dangers associated with all forms of trafficking and at
encouraging the public, including the victims of trafficking themselves, to report on
instances of trafficking;
(k)
To support allocation of the necessary resources, as appropriate, in
cooperation with intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, to strengthen
preventive action, in particular education for women and men, as well as for girls and boys,
on the human rights of women and children, gender equality, self-respect and mutual
respect;
(l)
To consider setting up or strengthening a national coordinating mechanism,
for example, a national rapporteur or an inter-agency body, with the participation of civil
society, including non-governmental organizations, to encourage the exchange of
information and to report on data, root causes, factors and trends in trafficking;
(m) To enhance information-sharing and data-collection capacities as a way of
promoting cooperation to combat trafficking in persons, including through the systematic
collection of sex- and age-disaggregated data;
(n)
To enhance cooperation with each other and with relevant intergovernmental
and non-governmental organizations to ensure effective prevention and countering of
trafficking in people, and to consider strengthening existing regional cooperation and
mechanisms aimed at combating trafficking in persons or to establish such mechanisms
where they do not exist;
(o)
To consider signing and ratifying, as a matter of priority, in the case of
Governments that have not yet done so, and for States parties to implement relevant United
Nations legal instruments, such as the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto, in particular the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress
and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children supplementing the
Convention, and to take immediate steps to incorporate provisions of the Protocol into
domestic legal systems;
4.
Calls upon all Governments to continue to cooperate with the Special
Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, and to consider
responding favourably to requests to visit their countries, and to provide all necessary
information related to the mandate to enable the mandate holder to fulfil the duties of the
mandate effectively and, in this regard, expresses its appreciation to the large number of
Governments that provided responses to the initial questionnaire on trafficking developed
by the Special Rapporteur;
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