67.
Urges States to design or reinforce, promote and
implement effective legislative and administrative policies, as
well as other preventive measures, against the serious situation experienced by certain groups of workers, including
migrant workers, who are victims of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. Special attention
should be given to protecting people engaged in domestic
work and trafficked persons from discrimination and violence, as well as to combating prejudice against them;
68.
Urges States to adopt and implement, or strengthen,
national legislation and administrative measures that expressly and specifically counter racism and prohibit racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, whether
direct or indirect, in all spheres of public life, in accordance
with their obligations under the International Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,
ensuring that their reservations are not contrary to the object
and purpose of the Convention;
69.
Urges States to enact and implement, as appropriate,
laws against trafficking in persons, especially women and
children, and smuggling of migrants, taking into account
practices that endanger human lives or lead to various kinds
of servitude and exploitation, such as debt bondage, slavery,
sexual exploitation or labour exploitation; also encourages
States to create, if they do not already exist, mechanisms to
combat such practices and to allocate adequate resources to
ensure law enforcement and the protection of the rights of
victims, and to reinforce bilateral, regional and international
cooperation, including with non-governmental organizations
that assist victims, to combat this trafficking in persons and
smuggling of migrants;
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