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15. Encourages Member States to use refugee registration mechanisms to
assess vulnerability and identify potential victims of trafficking as well as their
specific assistance needs, and in this regard encourages Member States to develop
informative material to explain to victims of trafficking in persons who are refugees
their rights and avenues for assistance, so as to enable them to engage with relevant
authorities and access services and psychosocial support that are available to them;
16. Encourages Member States, in particular transit and destination States
receiving persons forcibly displaced by armed conflict, to develop and use early warning and early-screening frameworks of potential or imminent risk of trafficking
in persons to proactively and expediently detect victims and persons vulnerable to
trafficking, with special attention to women and children, especially those
unaccompanied;
17. Urges Member States thoroughly to assess the individual situation of
persons released from the captivity of armed and terrorist groups so as to enable
prompt identification of victims of trafficking, their treatment as victims of crime
and to consider, in line with domestic legislation, not pros ecuting or punishing
victims of trafficking for unlawful activities they committed as a direct result of
having being subjected to trafficking;
18. Strongly condemns violations of international law, especially those which
affect children in situations of armed conflict, including those involving killing and
maiming, sexual violence, abduction and forced displacement, recruitment and use
of children in armed conflict, attacks against schools and hospitals, denial of
humanitarian access and trafficking in persons;
19. Urges Member States to identify children who are victims of trafficking
and those who are unaccompanied or separated from their families and caregivers,
to ensure, where relevant, their timely registration and to consider their particular
protection needs, including, as appropriate, by referring them to the relevant child
protection authorities regardless of their immigration status;
20. Recognizes the importance of providing timely and appropriate
reintegration and rehabilitation assistance to children affected by armed conflict,
while ensuring that the specific needs of girls and boys as well as children with
disabilities are addressed, including access to health care, psychosocial support, and
education programmes that contribute to the well-being of children and to
sustainable peace and security and encourages relevant international organizations
and civil societies organizations to assist Member States’ efforts in this regard;
21. Urges Member States to refrain from the use of administrative detention
of children, especially those victims of trafficking in persons, for violations of
immigration laws and regulations, unless as a measure of last resort, in the least
restrictive setting, for the shortest possible period of time, under conditi ons that
respect their human rights and in a manner that takes into account, as a primary
consideration, the best interest of the child and encourages them to work towards
the ending of this practice;
22. Requests the Secretary-General to further explore, as appropriate, links
between the trafficking of children in conflict situations and the grave violations
against children affected by armed conflict as determined by the United Nations,
with a view to addressing all violations and abuses against children in armed
conflict;
23. Welcomes further briefings on trafficking in persons in armed conflict, as
necessary, by relevant United Nations entities, including the Executive Director of
UNODC, UNHCR, and other international and regional bodies such as IOM, and
encourages Member States to provide to UNODC information on victims of
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