A/RES/53/116 Page 3 Noting with concern the increasing number of women and girl children from developing countries and from some countries with economies in transition who are being trafficked to developed countries as well as within and between regions and States, and acknowledging that the problem of trafficking also includes the victimizing of young boys, Welcoming bilateral and regional cooperation mechanisms and initiatives to address the problem of trafficking in women and girls, and taking note of the proposed draft convention on preventing and combating trafficking in women and children for the purposes of prostitution of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation,18 Underlining the importance of systematic data collection in determining the extent and nature of the problem of trafficking in women and girls, Emphasizing the need for more sustained and coordinated national, subregional, regional, interregional and international action to combat trafficking in women and girls, Deeply concerned about the unabated use of new information technologies, including the Internet, for purposes of prostitution, child pornography, paedophilia, trafficking in women as brides and sex tourism, Stressing once again the need for Governments to provide standard humanitarian treatment to trafficked persons consistent with human rights standards, 1. girls;19 Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on trafficking in women and 2. Welcomes national, regional and international efforts to implement the recommendations of the World Congress against Commercial and Sexual Exploitation of Children,20 and calls upon Governments to take further measures in that regard; 3. Urges Governments to continue their efforts to implement the provisions on trafficking in women and girls contained in the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women21 and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights;8 4. Encourages Governments to intensify their efforts to implement the policy recommendations and strategies on trafficking in women and girls contained in the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and its functional commissions, in particular the Programme of Action for the Prevention of the Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others22 adopted by the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-second session, taking into account the recommendations of the 18 See South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, document SAARC/Summit.10/CM.20/3. 19 A/53/409. 20 World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Stockholm, 27-31 August 1996, Final Report of the Congress, two volumes (Stockholm, Government of Sweden, January 1997). 21 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. 22 See E/CN.4/Sub.2/1995/28/Add.1. /...