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;
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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.
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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.
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