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14. Invites Governments to encourage Internet service providers to adopt or strengthen self-regulatory
measures to promote the responsible use of the Internet with a view to eliminating trafficking in women and
girls;
15. Encourages Governments to develop systematic data-collection methods and to update
continuously information on trafficking in women and girls, including the analysis of the modus operandi of
trafficking syndicates;
16. Urges Governments to strengthen national programmes to combat trafficking in women and girls
through sustained bilateral, regional and international cooperation, taking into account innovative approaches
and best practices, and invites Governments, United Nations bodies and organizations, intergovernmental and
non-governmental organizations and the private sector to undertake collaborative and joint research and
studies on traffic in women and girls that can serve as a basis for policy formulation or change;
17. Invites Governments, once again, with the support of the United Nations, to formulate training
manuals for law enforcement and medical personnel and judicial officers who handle cases of trafficked
women and girls, taking into account current research and materials on traumatic stress and gender-sensitive
counselling techniques, with a view to sensitizing them to the special needs of victims;
18. Invites States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
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Women,2 the Convention on the Rights of the Child
and the International Covenants on Human Rights
to
include information and statistics on trafficking in women and girls as part of their national reports to their
respective committees;
19. Invites the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on violence against women, its
causes and consequences, the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the sale of
children, child prostitution and child pornography and the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of
Slavery of the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities to continue to
address, within their respective mandates, the problem of trafficking in women and girls as a priority concern
and to recommend, in their reports, measures to combat such phenomena;
20. Reiterates its call upon the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in addressing
the obstacles to the realization of the human rights of women, in particular through her contacts with the
Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, to include the traffic in
women and girls among her priority concerns;
21. Welcomes the initiatives and activities of United Nations bodies and organizations and
intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to combat trafficking in women and girls, and invites
them to strengthen their activities in this context;
22. Encourages the Inter-Agency Committee on Women and Gender Equality to continue to address
the issue as part of the integrated follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women;
23. Requests the Secretary-General to compile, as reference and guidance, successful interventions and
strategies in addressing the various dimensions of the problem of trafficking in women and girls based on
reports, research and other materials within and outside the United Nations and to submit a report to the
General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session on the implementation of the present resolution.
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