DRAFT CEDAW General recommendation on Trafficking in Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration d) Investigating, prosecuting and convicting all perpetrators involved in the trafficking of persons, including those on the demand side. 28. Women’s rights framework to human development: Take responsibility, in view of the Sustainable Development Goals, to address the root causes of trafficking, in particular: the acceptance and normalization of gender-based violence against women (Goals 5, 11 and 16); the vulnerability of women to poverty (Goal 1); the concentration of women in insecure and vulnerable work and their lack of decent work opportunities (Goal 8) and the limited access for women and girls to education, (Goal 4); inequalities within and between countries (Goal 10); and insecurity as a result of conflict (Goal 16) or as a result of climate change-induced disasters and natural hazards. 29. Adopt and implement comprehensive gender-sensitive anti-trafficking legislation69 ensuring that it: a) Fully complies with international human rights standards, including the Convention;70 b) Fully complies with the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime71, including the definition of “trafficking in persons”; c) Has as its objective to combat trafficking for purposes of, among others, child and forced marriage, debt bondage, serfdom, forced or compulsory labour, slavery and sexual exploitation;72 d) Explicitly addresses contemporary methods of trafficking, including those which make use of information and communications technologies;73 e) Includes specific provisions addressing the prevention of trafficking in women and girls and the economic and physical and psychological rehabilitation of victims;74 f) Addresses any legal, policy and implementation gaps that impede the investigation, prosecution and conviction of traffickers under national criminal law; 75 g) Establishes, on an equal basis for women migrants, including irregular migrants, facilitated access to justice mechanisms to resolve complaints of exploitation and abuse; h) Sets a clear time frame for establishing specialized tribunals to effectively prosecute and adequately punish traffickers76, with an emphasis on proactive and victimless investigations and prosecutions of human trafficking crimes; i) Provides a harmonized approach to criminalizing trafficking at all levels of jurisdiction;77 j) Provides judges, prosecutors, criminal, financial and border police, asylum and immigration authorities and other law enforcement officials with mandatory training in its gender-sensitive application;78 k) Undergoes evaluation within a set timeframe to assess its impact.79 69 para. 30(a), CEDAW/C/ITA/CO/7; para. 29(a), CEDAW/C/PSE/CO/1. para. 21(b), CEDAW/C/CRI/CO/7. 71 para. 23(a), CEDAW/C/SGP/CO/5. 72 para. 26(a), CEDAW/C/MLI/CO/6-7; para. 27, CEDAW/C/RWA/CO/7-9. 73 para. 28(b), CEDAW/C/PHL/CO/7-8. 74 para. 23(a), CEDAW/C/IND/CO/4-5. 75 para. 27(d), CEDAW/C/LKA/CO/8. 76 para. 21(a), CEDAW/C/BGD/CO/8. 77 para. 23(b), CEDAW/C/ARG/CO/7. 78 para. 36(a), CEDAW/C/SAU/CO/3-4. 79 para. 27(h), CEDAW/C/FRA/CO/7-8. 70 10