A/HRC/36/43 including border management authorities, the police, public prosecutors, labour inspectorate and the judiciary; (b) Provide labour inspectors with a mandate and the tools necessary to enable them to identify victims of contemporary forms of slavery proactively, and eliminate challenges to effective labour inspections, such as measures that compel labour inspectors to conduct immigration enforcement activity; (c) Consider systemic collection of data as a means by which victims of contemporary forms of slavery are being identified in order to improve identification efforts; (d) Ensure the adequacy of structures and institutions to address violations and availability of effective, fair and protective mechanisms and complaints procedures; allocate financial and human resources to ensure the effective functioning of the judicial system; (e) Provide training to law enforcement authorities on legislation prohibiting contemporary forms of slavery to ensure that they respond to the cases brought to their attention efficiently and effectively; ensure that institutional training is reinforced with performance targets; (f) Train police, prosecutors and judicial authorities in the handling of victims of contemporary forms of slavery, especially on how to create a safe, supportive, and child-sensitive and gender-sensitive environment for victims to ensure they can access justice; (g) Take adequate corrective measures to ensure that officials who have failed to implement the law properly or have obstructed its implementation are disciplined; (h) Take all steps necessary to eliminate all forms of corruption in the justice system that could impede the fulfilment of the right to access to justice and remedy; (i) Take the measures necessary to ensure the protection of victims as well as family members and witnesses, including protection from intimidation and retaliation for exercising their rights under legislation criminalizing contemporary forms of slavery or for cooperating with legal authorities; (j) Provide protection measures to victims of contemporary forms of slavery that are not conditional on the victim’s willingness to cooperate in criminal and other proceedings; (k) Ensure that persons subjected to contemporary forms of slavery are informed, in a language they understand, of their rights, relevant laws and regulations, available complaint mechanisms and legal remedies; officials who have direct contact with victims of contemporary forms of slavery should be trained to provide this information to them; (l) Ensure that victims of contemporary forms of slavery have access to competent legal advice and assistance and that the necessary resources are allocated to provide high-quality legal aid; (m) Ensure that all victims of contemporary forms of slavery, both nationals and non-nationals, can pursue appropriate administrative, civil and criminal remedies, irrespective of their legal status; (n) Take the measures necessary to ensure that non-nationals victims contemporary forms of slavery are able to remain in a country to pursue legal remedies; (o) Take measures to protect victims of contemporary forms of slavery, including, in particular for migrant workers, the provision of a reflection and recovery period in order to allow the victim to take an informed decision relating to protective measures and participation in legal proceedings; 19

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