DRAFT CEDAW General recommendation on Trafficking in Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration ii. iii. iv. 26. Enacting, modifying and implementing anti-trafficking strategies to combat the internal and cross-border trafficking in women and girls and to address the root causes. 59 Include in the design those affected by antitrafficking policies, including trafficking victims and women and girls vulnerable to trafficking; Legislation aimed at preventing and combating human trafficking and enhancing the protection of victims and the criminal justice response to persistent and emerging human trafficking challenges and trends, including the misuse of technology to commit the crime ; 60 Improved measures to identify, assist and protect victims. 61 Address the root causes of trafficking by: a) Identifying and ensuring the equal rights and opportunities for women facing multiple forms of discrimination;62 b) Providing women and girls in situations of disadvantage with access to basic services, including education, information, health care and employment opportunities;6364 c) Enhancing women’s access to political decision-making, credit, land, and the modern tools and inputs required for its efficient cultivation;65 d) Stepping up nationwide public awareness-raising campaigns, particularly in rural communities, on the risk of human trafficking, the methods employed by traffickers and measures to reduce these risks; 66 e) Combating the practice of child and forced marriage through strengthened prevention efforts addressing its root causes, sensitization campaigns and appropriate punishment of such acts; 67 f) Identifying and addressing any potentially disadvantageous impact of nationality and immigration laws on women and girls who migrate or are trafficked abroad, and their children. 27. Discourage the demand that fosters all forms of exploitation of persons, especially women and children, that leads to human trafficking by:68 a) Adopting or strengthening legislative and other measures to implement prevention techniques through educational, social or cultural measures, including in particular those targeted toward potential users of trafficked goods or services; b) Where applicable, instituting penal legislation to sanction the users of goods and services that result from trafficking in persons; c) Instituting regulations, policies and procedures for public agencies and private businesses to identify and remove goods and services that result from trafficking in persons from their supply chains; 59 para.25(a), CEDAW/C/GAB/CO/6. para. 25(a), CEDAW/C/GAB/CO/6. 61 para. 21(c), CEDAW/C/MEX/CO/7-8. 62 para. 44, CEDAW/C/BRB/CO/5-8. 63 para. 45(e), CEDAW/C/MMR/CO/4-5; para. 28(e), CEDAW/C/BWA/CO/4; para. 37(f), CEDAW/C/CHE/CO/4-5. 64 para. 27(c), CEDAW/C/BFA/CO/7; para. 25(e), CEDAW/C/NER/CO/3-4; para. 31(a), CEDAW/C/UKR/CO/8; para. 33(g), CEDAW/C/CAN/CO/8-9. 65 para. 25(c), CEDAW/C/ETH/CO/6-7. 66 General recommendation No. 31 (2014) (CEDAW/C/GC/31-CRC/C/GC/18), para. 74; para. 27(b), CEDAW/C/KEN/CO/8; para. 27(b), CEDAW/C/RWA/CO/7-9; para. 21(b), CEDAW/C/BOL/CO/5-6; 30(a), CEDAW/C/IDN/CO/6-7. 67 General recommendation No. 30 (2013) (CEDAW/C/GC/30), para. 65(a); para. 22(c), CEDAW/C/NZL/CO/7. 68 Article 9(5), UN Trafficking Protocol; A/73/263 (2018), para. 18. 60 9