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(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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