Persons, Especially Women and Children supplementing the Convention, and to take immediate
steps to incorporate provisions of the Protocol into domestic legal systems;
4.
Calls upon all Governments to continue to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur on
trafficking in persons, especially women and children, and to consider responding favourably to
requests to visit their countries, and to provide all necessary information related to the mandate
to enable the mandate holder to fulfil the duties of the mandate effectively and, in this regard,
expresses its appreciation to the large number of Governments that provided responses to the
initial questionnaire on trafficking developed by the Special Rapporteur;
5.
Invites Governments to include information on measures and best practices to
combat trafficking in persons, especially women and children, in their national reports submitted
for the universal periodic review;
6.
Encourages Governments to take into account, as a useful tool to integrate a human
rights-based approach, the Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and
Human Trafficking (E/2002/68/Add.1) developed by the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights, including, as appropriate, in the formulation, review and
implementation of legislation, policies and programmes aimed at preventing and eradicating
trafficking in persons, especially women and children, and providing assistance to victims;
7.
Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner to provide or to support, within
existing resources, training at the national level for all stakeholders on the integration of a human
rights approach into the prevention and response to trafficking in persons, including the
identification and treatment of victims with full respect for their human rights;
8.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to enhance its efforts within the
Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking to promote and integrate a human
rights-based approach into efforts to combat human trafficking;
9.
Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to organize, within existing
resources, and in close coordination with the Special Rapporteur, a two-day seminar aimed at
identifying opportunities and challenges in the development of rights-based responses to
trafficking in persons with a view to acknowledging emerging good practices and further
promoting the practical application of the Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human
Rights and Human Trafficking, with the participation of Governments, the Special Rapporteur
and other relevant special procedures, treaty bodies, United Nations specialized agencies and
programmes, regional, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, national human
rights institutions, academics, medical experts and representatives of victims, and to submit a
report on the proceedings of the seminar to the Council;
10. Further requests the Office of the High Commissioner to disseminate the
Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking, and to
collect the views of stakeholders, including Governments, observers of the United Nations,
relevant United Nations bodies, specialized agencies and programmes, regional bodies,
non-governmental organizations and national human rights institutions, on the Recommended
Principles and Guidelines, as well as on experiences and emerging good practices while applying
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