A/HRC/45/8 97. Furthermore, migrant workers and other people without regularized residency status must be able to access health care and seek assistance free from the risk of detention or deportation. Collective expulsion should never be implemented. 4. Upholding and enforcing labour laws 98. States should uphold labour laws and ensure their enforcement, including through self-reporting, in order to maintain workers’ rights and prevent businesses and employers from exploiting their employees. 99. States must urgently strengthen labour administration and enforcement to ensure that labour inspections at the national level are carried out in a prompt and effective manner. Such inspections should focus on monitoring the situation of workers, including in the sectors most prone to exploitative working conditions. 100. States should ensure the effective implementation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. They should also take steps to increase awareness of contemporary forms of slavery among businesses, and engage with them in order to ensure that they assess and respond to risks faced by the vulnerable workers in a genuine and thorough manner, that purchasing practices are part of their due diligence and that recruitment procedures are adequately safeguarded against slavery-like practices. 5. International solidarity and cooperation 101. Following the call of the Secretary-General to rebuild better,131 States should consider the needs of those individuals who are most affected by and vulnerable to the pandemic and increase the resources available to the developing world, including through the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group and other international financial institutions. Addressing the root causes of contemporary forms of slavery should be incorporated in the resulting financing strategies. 102. During the pandemic, States should also relax economic sanctions and other coercive measures imposed upon some States so that victims of contemporary forms of slavery are protected and others are prevented from being exploited using those practices. 103. International cooperation with Alliance 8.7 and other multi-stakeholder partnerships involving States, civil society, international organizations and other stakeholders should be accelerated with a view to agreeing and implementing a common, global anti-slavery strategy. 131 20 United Nations, “COVID-19 must be global wake-up call, Secretary-General tells World Health Assembly, saying virus has ‘brought us to our knees’”, press release, 18 May 2020.