try to make reintegration programmes less conspicuous, by providing assistance to larger sections of communities, such as unemployed people, allowing assistance to be delivered to trafficked persons without identifying them as such.327 The OSCE Action Plan urges states to consider providing social and economic assistance to victims in the context of efforts to ensure their successful rehabilitation and social reintegration.328 In particular, OSCE states are encouraged to put in place special measures to protect the safety and well-being of children throughout the return process. Returning states are asked to support measures to monitor the victim’s situation implemented by the authorities in receiving countries upon return.329 The importance of reintegrating child victims is highlighted, and participating States are called on to strengthen structures to promote the social inclusion and reintegration of victims, both in countries of origin and destination.330 The UN Trafficking Protocol urges states to consider implementing measures to provide for, inter alia, the social recovery of victims of trafficking, “including, in appropriate cases, in cooperation with non-organizations, other relevant organizations and other elements of civil society”.331 Similarly, the Council of Europe Trafficking Convention requires states to establish multi-agency re-integration programmes aimed at avoiding re-victimization. In the EU, the Brussels Declaration confirms that the full range of victim re-integration measures should be made available to trafficked persons irrespective of whether they are being returned to their home countries or are granted longer-term residency status in the country of destination.332 The EU Trafficking Directive also mentions reintegration in connection to finding durable solutions for unaccompanied child victims of trafficking.333 Where trafficked persons have been granted refugee or subsidiary status, the EU law provides that member states make provisions for the integration of beneficiaries of international protection, either through the creation of integration programmes or by granting them access to already existing programmes.334 In addition to the legally-binding provisions developed for EU member states, the EU Group of Experts has emphasized the importance of victims’ empowerment to achieving successful reintegration. The group describes the concept of empowerment 327  Surtees, “Re/integration of trafficked persons”, op. cit., note 322, p. 20. 328  OSCE Action Plan, part V, para. 7(3). The 2013 Addendum to the OSCE Action Plan also highlights the issue of reintegration (part IV, paras. 2 and 2.5). 329  2005 Addendum to the OSCE Action Plan, para. 10. 330  2005 Addendum to the OSCE Action Plan, para. 11. 331  UN Trafficking Protocol, art. 6.3. 332  Brussels Declaration, p. 17. 333  EU Trafficking Directive, recital 23. 334  EU Qualification Directive, art. 34. 84 Part 2: Explanatory Report to the Principles

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