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children to be fraudulently adopted outside Liberia. UNMIL is also contributing to the
development of a social welfare policy for Liberia, which will provide a policy framework to
regulate adoptions and movements of children within and outside Liberia. UNMIL led a
subregional assessment of the work carried out in preventing and addressing trafficking in
persons in West Africa.
5. Support for legislative development
32. United Nations entities have collaborated with national authorities to improve laws to
combat trafficking in persons, especially in women and girls. For example, UNODC has
developed a model law to tackle trafficking in persons. It provides a comprehensive set of
provisions, dealing with all relevant issues, and is flexible enough to meet the special needs of a
diverse range of legal systems. UNODC has developed advanced training modules to combat
trafficking covering all aspects of the crime and integrating human rights, which will be released
in 2009.18
33. In May 2008, the Division for the Advancement of Women, Department of Economic and
Social Affairs, in collaboration with UNODC, organized in Vienna an expert group meeting on
good practices in legislation on violence against women. An expert paper was submitted on
“Legal Approaches to Trafficking as a Form of Violence against Women: Implications for a
More Comprehensive Strategy in Legislation on the Elimination of Violence against Women”.
The meeting adopted a framework containing recommendations on what should be included in
legislation on violence against women in terms of its implementation and monitoring,
prevention, protection, support and assistance to victims, investigation and legal proceedings,
among others.19
34. The Handbook for Parliamentarians: Combating Child Trafficking, developed by UNICEF
and IPU, has been translated and widely used by legislators around the world.
35. In the context of its mandate to provide technical advice on draft legislation, ILO has
commented on several draft laws concerning migration, including provisions on trafficking, for
example in Albania, Lebanon, Maldives, Mauritania, Republic of Moldova, Syrian Arab
Republic, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, United States of America.
18
Other UNODC publications can be found at: http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human
trafficking/publications.html.
19
Information on the expert group meeting, including the papers submitted and the final report
of the meeting, is available on: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/vaw_legislation_2008/
vaw_legislation_2008.htm.
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