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7.
Invites the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in
addressing the obstacles to the realization of the human rights of women, in
particular, through his contacts with the Special Rapporteur of the Commission
on Human Rights on violence against women and the Special Rapporteur of the
Commission on Human Rights on the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography, to include the traffic in women and girls among his
priority concerns;
8.
Also encourages the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat to
include the traffic in women and girls in its programme of work under its
advisory, training and information services, with a view to providing
assistance to member Governments, upon their request, in instituting
preventive measures against trafficking through education and appropriate
information campaigns;
9.
Requests the Commission on Human Rights to encourage the Working
Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery of the Subcommission on Prevention of
Discrimination and Protection of Minorities to continue to address the issue
of the traffic in women and girls under its draft programme of action on the
traffic in persons and the exploitation of the prostitution of others; 16/
10.
Requests the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
to consider appropriate follow-up to the Ninth United Nations Congress on the
Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders on measures to address the
problem of trafficking in women and children and to submit a report thereon to
the Secretary-General, through the usual channels, for inclusion in his report
to the General Assembly;
11.
Invites relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental
organizations to provide advisory services to Governments, upon their request,
in planning and setting up rehabilitation programmes for victims of
trafficking and in training personnel who will be directly involved in the
implementation of these programmes;
12.
Decides to focus the International Day for the Abolition of
Slavery, 2 December 1996, on the problem of trafficking in human persons,
especially women and children, and to devote one meeting of the fifty-first
session of the General Assembly to the discussion of this problem;
13.
Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly
at its fifty-first session, under the item entitled "Advancement of women", a
comprehensive report on the implementation of the present resolution, with due
regard for possible measures to improve the reporting procedure.
99th plenary meeting
22 December 1995
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See E/CN.4/Sub.2/1995/28/Add.1.