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trafficking from areas affected by conflict or victims trafficked into conflict areas
for inclusion within the existing reporting obligations;
24. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the thematic paper on
trafficking in persons in conflict situations developed by UNODC in consultation
with relevant United Nations agencies and other international bodies is disseminated
within the UN system, and encourages relevant United Nations agencies and entities
to use it in their respective activities in accordance with their mandates and develop
their capability to assess and respond to situations of trafficking in persons in armed
conflict;
25. Expresses its intention, to give greater consideration, where appropriate,
to how peacekeeping and special political missions, can assist host States in
exercising their primary responsibility to prevent and combat trafficking in persons,
and requests the Secretary-General to ensure that assessments of country situations
conducted upon the Security Council’s request on such missions include, where
relevant, anti-trafficking research and expertise;
26. Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with Member States, to
ensure, where appropriate, that training of relevant personnel of special political and
peacekeeping missions include, on the basis of a preliminary assessment and taking
also into account the protection and assistance needs of the victims of trafficking in
persons, specific information enabling them, within their mandates, to identify,
confirm, respond to and report on situations of trafficking in persons;
27. Reiterates its intention to integrate the issue of trafficking in persons in
areas affected by armed conflict into the work of relevant Security Council
Sanctions Committees where in accordance with their mandates, and expresses its
intention to invite all relevant Special Representatives of the Secretary -General,
including the Special Representative of the Secretary -General for Children and
Armed Conflict and the Special Representative of the Secretary -General on Sexual
Violence in Conflict, to brief these sanctions committees, as necessary, in
accordance with the Committee’s rules of procedure and to provide relevant
information, including, if applicable, the names of individuals involved in the
trafficking in persons who meet the committees’ designation criteria;
28. Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure that members of the
Monitoring Groups, teams and panels supporting the work of relevant sanctions
committees build their technical capacity to identify and report on instances of
trafficking in persons encountered in the discharge of their duties and in accordance
with their respective mandates, and further requests the Secretary-General to ensure
that the Monitoring and Reporting Arrangements on sexual violence in areas
affected by armed conflict systematically collect data on conflict -related trafficking
in persons for the purpose of sexual violence or exploi tation;
29. Invites the Secretary-General to ensure that the work of the Investigative
Team established pursuant to Resolution 2379 (2017) is informed by relevant
anti-trafficking research and expertise and that its efforts to collect evidence on
trafficking in persons offences are gender-sensitive, victim centred, traumainformed, rights-based and not prejudicial to the safety and security of victims;
30. Calls upon Member States to cooperate with the Investigative Team
established pursuant to Resolution 2379 (2017), including through mutual
arrangements on legal assistance, where necessary and appropriate, and in particular
to provide it with any relevant information as appropriate they may possess
pertaining to its mandate under that resolution;
31. Calls upon United Nations system organizations to enhance transparency
in their procurement and supply chains and step up their efforts to strengthen
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