DRAFT CEDAW General recommendation on Trafficking in Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration f) Establish firewalls between reporting of presumed trafficking arising from labour inspections, victims’ use of public services or other monitoring mechanisms, and immigration enforcement; g) Encourage reporting of trafficking by intensifying nationwide education and awareness-raising campaigns about the risks and criminal nature of trafficking184 and setting up a 24/7 free hotline.185 h) Guarantee the anonymity and protection of both victims of trafficking and witnesses who testify in trials from their traffickers;186 i) Enhance State collaboration with civil society organizations, including through strengthening their human, technical and financial resources, to ensure that victims of trafficking are identified, assisted and protected at an early stage, including through the operation of mobile units; 187 j) Empower communities through support and consultation to build strong allies for anti-trafficking efforts, including faith-based actors, who could provide critical information about trafficked women. These community-led systems should be established at locations and among groups where there may be trafficked women; including sites where forcibly displaced women and migrants are accommodated, registered or detained. k) Adopt a zero tolerance policy on trafficking and sexual exploitation and abuse, based on international human rights standards, which addresses such groups as national troops, peacekeeping forces, border police, immigration officials and humanitarian actors, and provide those groups with gender-sensitive training on how to identify and protect women and girls at risk and ways to report and sanction perpetrators.188 b. Victim assistance and protection 69. Under international law, trafficking victims have a special status and a right to special assistance and protection measures provided by the State.189 However, the implementation of these rights is largely dependent on their identification and the scope of how human trafficking is defined in national law. 70. The Committee affirms that discrimination against women is inextricably linked to other factors in their lives including being a victim of trafficking.190 Trafficking victims are in need of immediate support services, including access to information on their rights, medical, psychological and legal services available to them and how to access them.191 Yet they often face restricted access to essential services, both in the country in which they are identified and in their community of origin. 192 The provision of long term, needs-based, comprehensive victim-centred assistance and protection measures are often lacking in anti-trafficking responses. 71. The lack of availability and accessibility of assistance and protection measures is often impeded where first responders fail to conduct an appropriate risk assessment and make 184 para. 28(b), CEDAW/C/NGA/CO/7-8; para. 27(c), CEDAW/C/NOR/CO/9. para. 27(b), CEDAW/C/RWA/CO/7-9. 186 para. 21(b), CEDAW/C/ROU/CO/7-8; para. R, CEDAW/C/MMR/CO/3. 187 para. 25(d), CEDAW/C/ALB/CO/4; para. 31(b), CEDAW/C/IRL/CO/6-7; para. 33(b), CEDAW/C/CAN/CO/8-9; para. 25(c), CEDAW/C/THA/CO/6-7; 21(b), CEDAW/C/EST/CO/5-6; 25(d), CEDAW/C/ALB/CO/4. 188 General recommendation No. 30 (2013) (CEDAW/C/GC/30), para. 41(b). 189 UN Trafficking Protocol, Article 6. 190 General Recommendation No. 35 (2017) (CEDAW/C/GC/35), para. 12. 191 General recommendation No. 31 (2014) (CEDAW/C/GC/31-CRC/C/GC/18), para. 82. 192 A/71/303 (2016), para. 35. 185 23