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(d) To implement robust victim, and possible victim, identification
mechanisms and provide access to protection and assistance for identified victims
without delay, also in relation to trafficking in persons in armed conflict, including
where such victims are refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), and to
address comprehensively victims’ needs, including the provision of or access to
medical, psychosocial assistance and legal aid, as well as ensure that victims are
treated as victims of crime and in line with domestic legislation not penalized or
stigmatized for their involvement in any unlawful activities in which they have been
compelled to engage; calls in this regard for the continued support of UNODC and
other relevant United Nations entities, including UNHCR, as well as international
and regional bodies, including IOM, in assisting Member States, upon request, with
identification of and assistance to trafficking victims;
3.
Encourages Member States to:
(a) Build strong partnerships with the private sector and civil society,
including local women organizations, and to redouble their efforts by encouraging
these actors to provide information helping to identify, disrupt, dismantle and bring
to justice individuals and networks involved in trafficking in persons in areas
affected by armed conflict, including by training relevant officials such as law
enforcement personnel, border control officers, labour inspectors, consular or
embassy officials, judges and prosecutors and peacekeepers to identify i ndicators of
trafficking in persons in areas affected by armed conflict in supply chains;
(b) Consider that in some circumstances trafficking in persons in armed
conflict in all its forms and sexual violence in conflict can cause large movements
of refugees and migrants; recalls the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
and/or its Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees; and furthermore urges that all
refugee-receiving countries provide information on the services available to victims
of trafficking and sexual violence survivors, ensure sustainable psychosocial
support and provide survivors with the option to document their cases for future
legal action to hold traffickers accountable, and that due consideration is given to
clarifying and securing the legal status of undocumented refugee children, including
refugee children conceived as a result of sexual violence or exploitation, to avoid
situations of possible statelessness;
4.
Encourages the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and FATF-Style
Regional Bodies (FSRBs) to consider including an analysis of financial flows
associated with trafficking in persons that finances terrorism as part of its ongoing
work, in close cooperation with CTED, the Analytical Support and Sanctions
Monitoring Team and with UNODC;
5.
Calls on those Member States who have not yet done so to develop the
expertise of their Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) to analyse cases of trafficking
in persons that finance terrorism, and encourages them to work together to devel op
that capacity, and, in this regard, further encourages Member States and relevant
UN entities and other international and regional organizations to provide other
States which may need so, upon their request, with the financial, material and
technical assistance that they may require to build the capacity mentioned above;
6.
Calls on Member States to consider reinforcing legal and regulatory
measures to facilitate the sharing of information, both domestically and
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