DRAFT CEDAW General recommendation on Trafficking in Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration 55. Increase access to safe and protected formal employment opportunities for women, both in their home countries and in the countries of destination as a viable economic alternative to migration, exploitation or unemployment.143 56. Awareness-raising: a) Disseminate information on safe migration, the nexus between human trafficking and labor migration, the rights of migrant women workers and of victims of trafficking under the Convention, the UN Trafficking Protocol, national laws and available remedies for violations of those rights;144 b) Counter stereotypical attitudes and discrimination towards women migrants by providing sensitivity training for individuals tasked with providing assistance and protection services to migrant women, including relevant labour authorities, public and private recruitment agencies and employers and relevant State employees, including the police, border officers, immigration, embassy and consular authorities, labour inspectors, social workers and health-care providers.145 57. Promote a gender responsive safe migration framework to protect, outgoing, returning and incoming women migrants, including irregular migrants, from all forms of violations of their human rights146 including by: a) Ensuring more systematic and regular migration pathways, taking into consideration the specific needs of women, and ensuring the rights of the migrant populations within these pathways; b) Eliminating any gender discriminatory restrictions on migration in law, policy or practice that limit opportunities for women’s migration; c) Ensuring respect for women’s autonomy in relevant policies including those regarding access to visas, residence permits, work permits and other documentation for migration;147 d) Facilitating attainment of official identification and travel documents to allow safe passage for women wishing to emigrate;148 e) Reviewing and monitoring the impact of laws, policies and programmes affecting migrant women149, ensuring: a. Respect for the principle of non-refoulement;150 b. Decriminalization of irregular entry for trafficked women and girls;151 c. Provision of assistance to all women in need of protection.152 k) Legislating and implementing protections against exploitation and abuse by marriage brokers and traffickers. 153 143 para. 44(a), CEDAW/C/IDN/CO/6-7; para. 34(b), CEDAW/C/NPL/CO/4-5; para. 31(b), CEDAW/C/ARG/CO/7; para. 43, CEDAW/C/AUT/CO/7-8; para. 30(f), CEDAW/C/NOR/CO/8. 144 para. 25(b), CEDAW/C/KHM/CO/4-5; para. R, CEDAW/C/LAO/CO/7; para. 31(d), CEDAW/C/ARM/CO/5-6; para. 37, CEDAW/C/CRI/CO/5-6; para. 21(e), CEDAW/C/CMR/CO/4-5; para. 26(e), CEDAW/C/BHR/CO/3; para. 31(c), CEDAW/C/SAU/CO/3-4; para. 38(a), CEDAW/C/LBN/CO/4-5. 145 para. 22(b), CEDAW/C/QAT/CO/1. 146 para. R, CEDAW/C/LAO/CO/7; para. 31, CEDAW/C/ROU/CO/7-8; para. 34(c), CEDAW/C/NPL/CO/4-5. 147 para. 39, CEDAW/C/LKA/CO/8. 148 para. 23(c), CEDAW/C/ERI/CO/5. 149 para. 36(c), CEDAW/C/NOR/CO/8. 150 para. 43(a), CEDAW/C/GTM/CO/8-9; para. 20(f), CEDAW/C/AGO/CO/6; para. 27(d), CEDAW/C/NOR/CO/9. 151 para. 43(a), CEDAW/C/GTM/CO/8-9 152 para. 43(a), CEDAW/C/GTM/CO/8-9 153 para. 23(c), CEDAW/C/KOR/CO/7. 18