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The Ministers recognised that trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants continue to pose a serious challenge to humanity and require concerted international response, based on cooperation and sharing of information, as appropriate and urged to that end, all States to devise, enforce and strengthen effective measures to prevent, combat and eliminate all forms of trafficking in persons to counter the demand for trafficked victims and to protect the victims, in

Trafficking can also be subsumed under other offences, including removal of organs (Spain), leading or forcing a person into prostitution (Poland), slavery (Cameroon, Slovenia and Sudan), forced labour (Cameroon, Djibouti and Saudi Arabia),

The Committee urges the State party to criminalize all forms of trafficking in human beings, convict perpetrators, adopt

The report noted that the Maldives was primarily a destination country for migrant workers from Bangladesh and India trafficked into

Profoundly concerned also that the situation of children in many parts of the world remains critical, in an increasingly globalized environment, as a result of the persistence of poverty, social inequality, inadequate social and economic conditions, pandemics, in particular HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, environmental damage, natural disasters, armed conflict, foreign occupation, displacement, violence, terrorism, abuse, trafficking in

Commit to ensuring that national responses to HIV and AIDS meet the specific needs of women and girls, including those living with and affected by HIV, across their lifespan, by strengthening legal, policy, administrative and other measures for the promotion and protection of women’s full enjoyment of all human rights and the reduction of their vulnerability to HIV through the elimination of all forms of

To develop laws and public policies to prevent and

Deeply concerned about all forms of violence against children, in particular about phenomena

Urges States to ensure that the applicable requirements of the International Labour Organization for the employment of girls and boys are respected and effectively enforced and that girls who are employed have equal access to decent work, and equal payment and remuneration, are protected from economic exploitation, discrimination, sexual harassment, violence and abuse in the workplace, are aware of their rights and have access to formal and non-formal education, skills development and vocational training, and further urges States to develop gender-sensitive measures, including national action plans, where appropriate, to

Federal, state, and local programmes existed

Other training materials include an International Labour Organization and UNICEF training manual to fight trafficking in children for labour, sexual and other forms of exploitation; a UNODC and Inter-Parliamentary Union handbook for parliamentarians; an IOM manual for health providers and a handbook on direct assistance for victims/survivors of trafficking; a UNHCR and IOM joint framework document on developing standard operating procedures to facilitate the protection of trafficked persons; a UNIFEM handbook on access to justice for victims/survivors of trafficking in Nigeria; UNODC standard

General recommendation No. 19 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (para. 11) states that the underlying consequences of violence contribute to maintaining women in subordinate roles, to their low level of political participation and to their lower level of education, skills and work opportunities,

Deeply concerned that all forms of discrimination, including racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and multiple or aggravated forms of discrimination and disadvantage, can lead to the targeting or particular vulnerability to violence of girls and some groups of women, such as women belonging to minority groups, indigenous women, refugee and internally displaced women, migrant women, women living in rural or remote communities, destitute women, women in institutions or in detention, women with disabilities, elderly women, widows, women in situations of armed conflict, women who are

At the regional level, the Government had worked on guidelines on best practices in the area of human trafficking within the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR), and was actively engaged in cross-border cooperation with

In addition, some States mentioned that the sensitization of the general public could be achieved through other activities,

(i) To develop gender-sensitive measures, including national action plans, where appropriate, to eliminate child labour,

Cambodia reported that its Law on Suppression of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of 2008 did not criminalize prostitution itself but rather the act of procuring and soliciting, and that it protected

paragraphs 48 to 50 of its resolution 63/241, and calls upon all States to prevent, criminalize, prosecute and punish all forms of the sale of children, including for the purposes of the transfer of

With civil society support, a manual was drawn

(g) The efforts made by the Government of Cambodia in combating trafficking in persons, including the enforcement of the

It affects girls and women at every point in their lives and ranges from sex-selective abortion and infanticide, inadequate health care and nutrition given to girls, female genital mutilation, child marriage, rape as a

(f) Factors such as culturally ingrained son preference, sex-selective abortion, female infanticide, the disproportionate impact of malnutrition on girls, early

The Committee is particularly concerned that the law prohibiting child labour has not been enforced, even in the formal employment sector, and that children are still vulnerable to

(c) Trafficking in women and children, including internal human trafficking, for the purposes of forced

Honduras also referred to actions taken to comply with obligations arising from the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its two Optional Protocols, among which had been the establishment of legal,