A/HRC/10/64 page 11 6. Services for victims/survivors of trafficking 36. The United Nations entities continue to support different stakeholders in enhancing services for victims of human trafficking. 37. UNICEF works to strengthen the protective environment for children, to improve the health, education and well-being of children. The services for all children, including victims of human trafficking, include referral mechanisms, shelters, counselling, health care, guardianship, access to education and legal advice. UNICEF also provides training to local non-governmental organizations that operate shelters for trafficked women and a hotline for victims. 38. IOM, over the past 10 years, has offered specific protection and direct assistance to 15,000 trafficked and exploited persons. Its primary aim is to prevent trafficking in human beings and protect its victims, while offering them the options of safe and sustainable integration and/or voluntary return and reintegration. While the majority of individuals offered protection by IOM have been females trafficked for sexual exploitation (8,326 cases out of a total of 12,681 from 2000 to 2007), there has been a growing proportion of trafficked men assisted by IOM and its partners; with 355 trafficked males assisted in 2007 compared to 19 in 2001. During the same period, the organization also increased its support to individuals subjected to labour exploitation from 58 in 2001, to 602 in 2007. 39. ILO implements technical cooperation projects to prevent trafficking (including child trafficking) in about 40 member States. Many of these projects include components on victim rehabilitation through skills training, education, psychosocial counselling, job placement services, microfinance and other measures aimed at the empowerment of victims. 40. Within its programme on trafficking in women and adolescents, UNICRI aims to expand the access of trafficking victims and potential victims to microfinance so that they can develop viable income-generating activities. 41. In 2008, UNODC conducted an orientation session for NGO partners on developing corporate partnerships with a special focus on the rehabilitation of trafficking victims and prevention programmes at the community level. 42. UN.GIFT has partnered with Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, an India-based NGO working in Jharkhand, to ensure that cases of victims of trafficking are given due process of law. In May 2008, the NGO facilitated public hearings with representatives from the National Commission for Women and other senior government officials. As a result of these hearings, over 300 cases have been taken up by the local administration and admitted into the formal judicial process. 7. Strengthening the efforts to combat human trafficking challenges, lessons learned and the way forward 43. As shown by the activities of United Nations entities, a holistic approach is fundamental to achieving results in combating trafficking in persons. Human trafficking will not be eradicated without political will and commitment at the highest levels to make it a priority locally, nationally, regionally and internationally.