A/HRC/10/64 page 6 2. Data collection, research, studies and support for policy development 14. The United Nations entities and other organizations are conducting various activities in order to improve the availability of data. From April 2007, UNODC carried out under UN.GIFT, a major data collection exercise on national responses to trafficking in persons in order to collect primary information, focusing on countries’ legislative and administrative frameworks, the criminal justice response, and the services provided to victims. The Division for the Advancement of Women, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, will launch a database on violence against women in March 2009, during the fifty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women. It will contain information on measures undertaken by States in a number of areas, such as legal framework, policies and programmes, services for victims, data and statistics, and promising practices. UNICRI is developing anti-trafficking projects that include a specific assessment component aimed at the collection and analysis of information and data on trafficking patterns and modalities, routes and flows and existing counter-trafficking measures. It has also created three databases that contain relevant legal instruments, a list of institutions working against the sexual exploitation of minors and an updated bibliography on trafficking in human beings.7 15. Since 2000, IOM has been developing a global human trafficking database as a unique tool that facilitates the management of assistance, voluntary return and reintegration activities for victims of trafficking, and strengthens the research capacity and understanding of the causes, processes, trends and consequences of trafficking. The IOM will soon be publishing a number of reports that form part of the Thematic Research Series of the database. Drawing upon non-personal data held within the system, the series will specifically address the issues of re-trafficking, the trafficking of males, and traffickers and organized crime. 16. UNU undertook research to deepen understanding of the social, economic and political contexts of human trafficking and contribute to policy discussion and strategic interventions in the fight against trafficking. The project included a field mission to Phnom Penh to conduct discussions with United Nations agencies and NGOs engaged in combating trafficking. In 2008, the project produced a book entitled Trafficking in Humans: Social, Cultural and Political Dimensions.8 17. UNICEF is running a global database, collected through its Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey9 on issues measurable through household surveys, including birth registration, child labour, child marriage, child disability and child discipline. Global data are not yet available on trafficking of children and UNICEF is working with partners to develop methodology and indicators in this area in the future. The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre hosts the Child 7 http://www.unicri.it/wwd/trafficking/legal_framework/index.php, http://www.unicri.it/wwd/ trafficking/irisem/index.php, http://www.unicri.it/wwd/trafficking/bibliography/index.php. 8 See http://www.unu.edu/unupress/2008/traffickinginhumans.html. 9 See www.childinfo.org.