A/72/139 B. Recommendations to Member States 59. To tackle the socioeconomic drivers of contemporary forms of slavery to achieve target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals and implement the 2030 Agenda, Member States should: (a) Take immediate steps towards addressing inequality as part of efforts to effectively implement Sustainable Development Goal 10, on reducing inequalities within and between countries; (b) Accelerate efforts to put an end to poverty in line with Sustainable Development Goal l, on ending poverty; (c) Work with ILO, the business sector and other partners to develop new opportunities for decent work, as part of the efforts to implement Sustainable Development Goal 8, on economic growth and decent work for all; (d) Ensure that labour regulation systems are adequate to protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments in line with efforts to fully and effectively implement Goal 8; (e) Increase and strengthen measures to accelerate progress towards gender parity and empowerment of women and girls in line with Sustainable Development Goal 5, on gender equality; (f) Ensure policy coherence between all efforts to tackle the socioeconomic drivers of contemporary forms of slavery as part of the full and effective implementation of the Goals and other areas of related policy, including trade and investment, migration and border management; (g) Establish comprehensive national approaches to the full and effective eradication of contemporary forms of slavery to achieve target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals; (h) Establish national systems of rule of law that protect the human rights of all people, administered by competent judges, prosecutors and law enforcement officers who are trained in eradicating contemporary forms of slavery; (i) Ensure that contemporary forms of slavery are criminalized as specific crimes within national legal frameworks, with penalties commensurate with the crimes; (j) Develop robust institutional and policy frameworks that ensure the effective implementation of laws that criminalize all contemporary forms of slavery; (k) Take all steps necessary to tackle the root causes and manifestations of discrimination against minority groups who are vulnerable to contemporary forms of slavery, including women, children, indigenous peoples, people perceived as being of low caste status and migrant workers, as another fundamental part of the effective implementation of Goal 10; (l) Enact measures to uphold the rights of children and protect them from child labour and enslavement, including sexual exploitation, forced recruitment as child soldiers, forced marriage, forced begging and domestic servitude; (m) Remove constraints on establishing democratic trade unions and ensure that the rights of workers and human rights defenders to freely associate are consistently upheld; 17-11988 19/21