A/HRC/10/16 page 26 Promotion (of international cooperation), Redress, Rehabilitation and Reintegration of victims to assume a constructive role in the society. These pillars will be explored in greater detail in future work and reports. • We now more than ever need refreshing new ideas and insights into this phenomenon and the Special Rapporteur hopes that together we can examine our “solutions” of the past and begin to propose better ways of tackling trafficking in human beings. Recommendations • States are urged to ratify the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. • States should take immediate steps to incorporate the provisions of the Palermo Protocol into their domestic legal system, including by establishing dedicated national anti-trafficking machineries (e.g. an agency) and adopting a plan of action that integrates a human rights framework. • Regarding data collection and management, States are urged to put in place harmonized data collection mechanisms to improve data collection and reporting on all forms of trafficking to ensure effective programming and monitoring. • States are urged to work towards a global plan of action to combat trafficking and to improve cooperation through bilateral and multilateral agreements for joint actions against human trafficking among countries of origin, transit and destination. • States should continuously conduct capacity-building, awareness-raising and sensitization campaigns on trafficking in persons for law enforcement officials, particularly police, judiciary and immigration, and the general public. • States should observe the principles and guidelines on human rights and human trafficking developed by OHCHR and incorporate them in their legal and policy framework for combating all forms of human trafficking. • States should ensure that robust, child-centred provisions exist in their legislation to combat trafficking of children and that these are implemented with the highest regard for the rights and well-being of the child. These child-centred policies should include child-friendly reporting systems, training for law enforcement to ensure that child victims are rescued and reintegrated in child-centred ways and not treated as criminals, and that national action plans and anti-trafficking policies and programmes include children as equal participants and partners. • Governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations should collaborate and take steps to ensure that measures adopted for the purpose of preventing and combating trafficking in persons do not have an adverse impact on the rights and dignity of persons, including those who have been trafficked.

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