DRAFT CEDAW General recommendation on Trafficking in Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration c) Financially support independent associations, legal professionals and social services centres providing legal resources to educate women about their rights to equality and assist them in pursuing remedies;250 d) Ensure, through legislative and other means, that trafficked women can access the right to remedy and compensation through different avenues, such as criminal, civil and labour courts, and that victims are compensated, as far as possible, commensurate with their loss, injury and suffering; e) Adopt legislation on the organization, allocation and functioning of a special compensation fund for victims of and witnesses to trafficking and allocate sufficient funds for them.251 Ensure that the conditions to access funding from the compensation fund are reasonable and swift and do not place undue burden on trafficked women, and are not made conditional on confiscation of assets from their traffickers; f) De-link funding and support for female victims of trafficking from their participation in the criminal justice process. 97. a) b) c) d) Tracking proceeds of crime252: Build investigative teams capable of tracking the financial flows that trafficking in women and girls generates, striking with sequestrations and confiscation of all the capital attributable to such criminal conduct, also tracing and revealing the channels of recycling and cleaning money; Strengthen and adopt specialized Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) measures that are necessary to identify, disrupt, and confiscate illicit revenues from trafficking; Ring-fence any confiscated funds for the purpose of redistribution to victims primarily by way of compensation for the human rights violations that they have suffered; Issue guidelines and hold relevant private actors accountable for violations of AML/CFT laws relating to human trafficking. VII. Dissemination and reporting 98. The Committee underscores the need to accelerate the implementation of all the provisions of the Convention in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the recommendations emanating from the Beijing +25 review, as a means to induce transformative and radical change in women’s exercise of their autonomy and selfdetermination. 99. States parties are recommended to include information in their periodic reports to the Committee on the legal frameworks, strategies, budgets and programmes that they have implemented to ensure that the human rights of women are promoted and protected within policies relating to preventing and combatting trafficking in women. 100. States parties’ strategies to implement a gender-transformative anti-trafficking response should be included in their reporting to other mechanisms, including under the: Universal Periodic Review process of the United Nations Human Rights Council; High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development; Global Compact on Safe, Regular and Orderly Migration; and the Mechanism for the Review of Implementation of the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols Thereto. 250 General recommendation No. 30 (2013) (CEDAW/C/GC/30), para. 15. para. 25(a), CEDAW/C/NER/CO/3-4; para. 23(h), CEDAW/C/BLR/CO/8. 252 See also: OSCE/Office of the Special Representative and Coordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Following the Money: Compendium of Resources and Synthesized Step-by-Step Guide to Financial Investigations related to Trafficking in Human Beings (Vienna 2019). 251 32