A/HRC/RES/44/4 contribution to all phases of preventing and responding to trafficking, especially in addressing sexual exploitation; (g) Adopting appropriate measures to address, especially in the field of education and awareness-raising, discriminatory approaches and social norms that increase women’s and girls’ vulnerabilities to trafficking, including by addressing sexual and domestic violence and other forms of violence, and discrimination in access to resources, education and job opportunities; (h) Promoting greater synergy between anti-trafficking efforts and those made under the women, peace and security agenda, especially by addressing the issue of trafficking in persons and its link with conflict-related sexual violence, and by stressing the key role of women’s agency and participation; (i) Taking into consideration the fact that the risk of trafficking is heightened in humanitarian crisis situations, including in armed conflict, and in post-conflict environments, natural disasters and other emergency environments, and calling upon States and the United Nations to take measures to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers; (j) Addressing the specific needs and vulnerability to trafficking of children by considering the best interests of the child in all measures and decisions affecting children and by promoting education and preventing and combating child labour and trafficking in children; (k) Fully recognizing that, while technology is frequently misused to facilitate trafficking in persons, its use can also help to fight trafficking and in providing services to victims, particularly relevant in the COVID-19 context as the pandemic has increased the use of digital technologies; (l) Ensuring victims’ right to privacy; (m) Further developing ways to protect victims of trafficking in persons for the purpose of organ removal and to address their vulnerability, including by providing medical and psychosocial care and services to victims and by adopting the measures necessary to protect the rights and interests of victims in all phases of criminal prosecution and judicial proceedings, and to ensure accountability; (n) Addressing the root causes of forced displacement, including human rights violations and discriminatory practices, and thus reducing vulnerability to trafficking in persons; 2. Urges States to prevent and to fight trafficking in persons, especially women and children, for the purpose of all forms of exploitation, and to address labour exploitation, including by: (a) Promoting consistent, whole-of-society action involving civil society, the private sector, trade unions and other relevant stakeholders in the field of economic and social development, as well as the labour market; (b) Considering obligations for companies to ensure that they practice ethical recruitment and identify, analyse and prevent or mitigate the risks of trafficking resulting from business activities and from the activities of subcontractors and suppliers, and to incentivize human rights due diligence; (c) Considering adopting procedures or models regarding good practices in transparency in supply chains with a view to disrupt and dismantle criminal business models; (d) Taking concrete measures to fully understand, comprehensively address and fight against all types of trafficking; 3. Calls upon States to further prevent and to fight trafficking in persons, to address the root causes of trafficking and to promote the social inclusion of victims of trafficking by ensuring their right to an effective remedy, by, inter alia: (a) Ensuring access to effective remedies, including in the context of business activities and supply chains, and coordination between operational grievance mechanisms and State-based grievance and assistance mechanisms and remedies; 4

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