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(f) To adopt or strengthen legislative or other measures to discourage the demand that
fosters all forms of exploitation of persons and leads to trafficking in persons;
(g) To establish mechanisms, where appropriate, in cooperation with the international
community, to combat the use of the Internet to facilitate trafficking in persons and crimes
related to sexual or other forms of exploitation and to strengthen international cooperation to
investigate and prosecute trafficking facilitated by the use of the Internet;
(h) To provide or strengthen training for law enforcement, immigration, criminal justice
and other relevant officials, including personnel participating in peacekeeping operations, in
preventing and responding effectively to trafficking in persons, including the identification of
victims with full respect for their human rights;
(i) To conduct information campaigns for the general public, including children, aimed
at promoting awareness of the dangers associated with all forms of trafficking and encouraging
the public, including the victims of trafficking themselves, to report on instances of trafficking;
(j) To cooperate with each other and with relevant intergovernmental and
non-governmental organizations to ensure the effective countering of trafficking in persons;
(k) To enhance information-sharing and data-collection capacities as a way of promoting
cooperation to combat trafficking in persons, including through the systematic collection of sexand age-disaggregated data;
(l) To consider strengthening existing regional mechanisms aimed at combating
trafficking in persons or to establish such mechanisms where they do not exist;
(m) To consider signing and ratifying and States parties to implement relevant
United Nations legal instruments, such as the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto, in particular the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and
Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the Convention;
3.
Takes note of the work undertaken by the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in
persons, especially women and children;
4.
Decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons,
especially women and children, for a period of three years, in order to, inter alia:
(a) Promote the prevention of trafficking in persons in all its forms and the adoption of
measures to uphold and protect the human rights of victims;
(b) Promote the effective application of relevant international norms and standards and
to contribute to the further improvement of them;
(c) Integrate a gender and age perspective throughout the work of his or her mandate,
inter alia through the identification of gender- and age-specific vulnerabilities in relation to the
issue of trafficking in persons;
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