Referring to the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (Palermo Protocol), and in particular paragraph 3 "... Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour and services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs"
Recognising that laws current in many countries which regulate travel and immigration of foreigners to those countries are evaded or exploited in order to achieve the introduction of women and children trafficked for exploitation as sex workers, and
Concerned that such women and children tend to be without language and other resources in a strange country and so wholly dependent on those who exploit them and that accordingly effective measures are needed in those countries to discover them and to detect and punish the traffickers,
Reiterating the ICW-CIF Resolution "Prevention on Trafficking in Women and Children" (Perth 2003), and all ICW resolutions since the one on "White Slave Traffic" (1904) and "Trafficking in Women" (1909) dealing with that subject,
The International Council of Women calls upon all its member national councils to urge their national governments to:
1. Review and strengthen laws prohibiting trafficking in persons with a particular view to detecting and punishing attempts to bring in women and children for the purpose of sexual exploitation,
2. Implement measures to assist early discovery of women and children brought in for that purpose, and
3. Provide the means for such women and children to return to their own families or otherwise to resettle in a safe environment.
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Source: International Council of Women (ICW-CIF) — General Assembly, Kiev, 2006. Resolution No. 5.
