E/CN.4/2005/85 page 14 43. The Special Rapporteur has found that the information available to prospective women migrants is inadequate to protect against the risks of illegal migration, such as trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or slavery-like practices, servitude or the removal of organs.15 The Special Rapporteur has described how many women recruited by agencies end up as victims of labour exploitation, in some cases suffering slavery-like conditions or forced labour (see E/CN.4/2004/76). 44. With regard to trafficking in humans in the context of international migrations, the Special Rapporteur has identified a series of good practices aimed at safeguarding the human rights of victims and preventing them from being treated as criminals.16 Since the establishment of this special procedure, the international community has developed various instruments to prevent trafficking in persons. Most notably, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, has enabled many States to adopt specific legislation at the national level and encouraged greater intergovernmental cooperation in this area. The Special Rapporteur acknowledges the efforts made in this regard and recalls that the legal framework established to deal with this kind of crime can be supplemented by measures to safeguard victims’ rights, such as the Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.17 Such measures may include providing trafficked persons with legal assistance, protection for witnesses, rehabilitation of victims, the option of rehabilitation or resettlement in the country of destination, and action to combat the root causes of trafficking in the countries of origin, in particular by strengthening women’s economic role. D. Unaccompanied minors 45. In her first report to the General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur drew attention to three situations in which States seem slow to take account of the best interests of unaccompanied minors: detention,18 repatriation procedures19 and family reunification (A/57/292, paras. 39-44). 46. In its resolution 2000/85, entitled “Rights of the child”, the Commission requested States to cooperate fully with and assist the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, in order to address the particular vulnerable conditions of migrant children, and the Special Rapporteur has continued to transmit allegations of violations of the human rights of unaccompanied minors. Of particular note during the reporting period were the cases transmitted to the Spanish Government concerning alleged summary deportations of unaccompanied minors by border guards at Melilla, and alleged ill-treatment of minors in reception centres there.20 47. The Special Rapporteur has also been paying close attention to reports of growing numbers of undocumented Central American children, aged between 10 and 17, who are detained en route to the United States. In her communications, she has expressed her concern to the countries these children pass through with the help of illicit migrant traffickers. Some of them are sent by their parents to find work and send money home. During the period under review the Special Rapporteur transmitted to the Government of Costa Rica cases of unaccompanied minors travelling illegally to join their parents, with the help of migrant-smuggling rings (E/CN.4/2005/85/Add.1).