A/HRC/44/45 of retrafficking or reprisals from traffickers as grounds to grant international protection, in line with Guidelines on International Protection No. 7 of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. 71. States should ensure that the risks of trafficking and retrafficking are adequately evaluated when a decision is made on return and that no person, regardless of their status, is returned to a place where there are grounds to believe that they would be at risk of being subject to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, or other serious human rights violations, including trafficking. 72. Children, especially unaccompanied and separated children, should be promptly identified, registered and referred to child protection systems. States should ensure that identification procedures are proactive and take into account age, gender and maturity, in line with the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the general comments thereon. In case of doubt when carrying out a child-sensitive age assessment, the person concerned should be considered a child. 73. States should establish dedicated shelters for women, in cooperation with civil society organizations, based on meaningful relationships among women as a means to ensure that trafficked women and girls recover from their traumas, rebuild their selfesteem, regain control of their lives, and be empowered in order to undertake a process of social inclusion. 74. States should establish shelters for men victims of trafficking for any forms of exploitation. Moreover, States should explore, for women and men, the possibilities of alternative independent accommodation. 75. Civil society organizations and private individuals should not be criminalized for acting in solidarity with migrants, including trafficked persons. 76. States and competent law enforcement and judicial authorities should uphold victims’ rights in criminal and other legal proceedings, by ensuring their right to safety (including as a witness) and that of family members, the right to be heard, the right to be informed in a language that they understand of their legal rights, including their right to have access to remedies, the remedies available and the procedures to obtain them, the right to access justice in a non-discriminatory manner, the right to fair trial guarantees and the right to legal assistance and representation. Such rights should be effectively implemented, taking into account age, gender and the specific needs of victims and avoiding secondary victimization in victims’ interaction with law enforcement and judicial authorities. Social inclusion of trafficked persons and survivors, including through judicial and non-judicial remedies 77. States should: (a) Exercise due diligence to promote social inclusion of trafficked persons as an integral part of the due diligence obligations of States and the right of trafficked persons to an effective remedy; (b) Adopt, revise and implement legislation and policies in order to ensure that survivors’ right to remedy, including compensation, is not conditional upon victims’ cooperation in criminal proceedings, upon the initiation or the outcome of criminal proceedings or upon the possession of legal residence status, paying special attention to child victims of trafficking; (c) Eradicate stigma, gender-based discrimination, xenophobia and racism, ensure that social inclusion is not hampered by restrictive migration policies and that no decision on return or repatriation is adopted without a previous assessment of the level of integration of that person in the country and of the risk of retrafficking in the event of return or repatriation, in line with the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration; 17