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34. We recognize the importance of strengthening public-private partnerships
in preventing and countering crime in all its forms and manifestations. We are
convinced that, through the mutual and effective sharing of information, knowledge
and experience and through joint and coordinated actions, Governments and
businesses can develop, improve and implement measures to prevent, prosecute and
punish crime, including emerging and changing challenges.
35. We stress the need for all States to have national and local action plans
for crime prevention that take into account, inter alia, factors that place certain
populations and places at higher risk of victimization and/or offending in a
comprehensive, integrated and participatory manner, and for such plans to be based
on the best available evidence and good practices. We stress that crime prevention
should be considered an integral element of strategies to foster social and economic
development in all States.
36. We urge Member States to consider adopting legislation, strategies and
policies for the prevention of trafficking in persons, the prosecution of offenders and
the protection of victims of trafficking, consistent with the Protocol to Prevent,
Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children,
supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime. 15 We call upon Member States, where applicable, in cooperation with civil
society and non-governmental organizations, to follow a victim-centred approach
with full respect for the human rights of the victims of trafficking, and to make
better use of the tools developed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
37. We urge Member States to consider adopting and implementing effective
measures to prevent, prosecute and punish the smuggling of migrants and to ensure
the rights of smuggled migrants, consistent with the Protocol against the Smuggling
of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime. 16 In this context, we recommend that
Member States, inter alia, undertake awareness-raising campaigns, in cooperation
with civil society and non-governmental organizations.
38. We affirm our determination to eliminate violence against migrants,
migrant workers and their families, and we call upon Member States to adopt
measures for preventing and addressing effectively cases of such violence and to
ensure that those individuals receive humane and respectful treatment from States,
regardless of their status. We also invite Member States to take immediate steps to
incorporate into international crime prevention strategies and norms measures to
prevent, prosecute and punish crimes involving violence against migrants, as well as
violence associated with racism, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance. We
invite the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to consider this
issue further in a comprehensive manner.
39. We note that the development of information and communications
technologies and the increasing use of the Internet create new opportunities for
offenders and facilitate the growth of crime.
40. We realize the vulnerability of children, and we call upon the private
sector to promote and support efforts to prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation
through the Internet.
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2237, No. 39574.
Ibid., vol. 2241, No. 39574.