sexual and labour exploitation, as part of a comprehensive anti-trafficking strategy that integrates
a human rights perspective, and to draw up, as appropriate, national plans of action in this
regard;
(g) To adopt or strengthen legislative or other measures to discourage the demand that
fosters all forms of exploitation of persons and leads to trafficking in persons, including the
demand created by sex tourism, especially in children, and forced labour, and to enhance, in this
regard, preventive measures, including legislative measures, to deter exploiters of trafficked
persons and to ensure their accountability;
(h) To establish mechanisms, where appropriate, in cooperation with the international
community, to combat the use of the Internet to facilitate trafficking in persons and crimes
related to sexual or other forms of exploitation, and to strengthen international cooperation to
investigate and prosecute trafficking facilitated by the use of the Internet;
(i) To provide or strengthen training for law enforcement, immigration, criminal justice
and other relevant officials, including personnel participating in peacekeeping operations, in
preventing and responding effectively to trafficking in persons, including the identification and
treatment of victims with full respect for their human rights;
(j) To conduct information campaigns for the general public, including children, aimed
at promoting awareness of the dangers associated with all forms of trafficking and at
encouraging the public, including the victims of trafficking themselves, to report on instances of
trafficking;
(k) To support allocation of the necessary resources, as appropriate, in cooperation with
intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, to strengthen preventive action, in
particular education for women and men, as well as for girls and boys, on the human rights of
women and children, gender equality, self-respect and mutual respect;
(l) To consider setting up or strengthening a national coordinating mechanism, for
example, a national rapporteur or an inter-agency body, with the participation of civil society,
including non-governmental organizations, to encourage the exchange of information and to
report on data, root causes, factors and trends in trafficking;
(m) To enhance information-sharing and data-collection capacities as a way of promoting
cooperation to combat trafficking in persons, including through the systematic collection of sexand age-disaggregated data;
(n) To enhance cooperation with each other and with relevant intergovernmental and
non-governmental organizations to ensure effective prevention and countering of trafficking in
people, and to consider strengthening existing regional cooperation and mechanisms aimed at
combating trafficking in persons or to establish such mechanisms where they do not exist;
(o) To consider signing and ratifying, as a matter of priority, in the case of Governments
that have not yet done so, and for States parties to implement relevant United Nations legal
instruments, such as the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and
the Protocols thereto, in particular the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in
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