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III. RECOMMENDATIONS

66. The Working Group adopted unanimously the following recommendations which it submits to the Sub-Commission for consideration:

1. General Recommendations

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(a) The Sub-Commission should recommend to the Commission on Human Rights that it resolve that the United Nations and the competent specialized agencies should have a special responsibility to create a sense of awareness in the world community, so that influence might be brought to bear on Governments to put an end to such odious practices as slavery, the slave trade and the slavery-like practices of apartheid and colonialism.

(b) The mass media should also be invited to disseminate information and to make their important contribution to the rapid elimination of slavery and the slave trade in all their practices and manifestations.

2. Slavery and the slave trade

(c) The Sub-Commission should request information from the Government of Guatemala on denunciations made which would be related to slavery-like practices in that country.

(a) The Sub-Commission should bring the information on the situation of women in some countries of the Middle East and North Africa, submitted by the Minority Rights Group, to the attention of the Commission on Human Rights, the Commission on the Status of Women, the High Commissioner for Refugees, and other United Nations agencies concerned, with a view to securing effective international action and to encouraging the Governments concerned to take effective legislative and other measures to terminate such practices, including wide ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

(e) The Sub-Commission should express its appreciation to the Government of Mauritania on its decision to eradicate slavery in that country and invite it to supply information to the Working Group on the measures being taken to that effect.

3. The sale of children

(f) The Sub-Commission should bring the report of the Minority Rights Group on the sale of children in Thailand to the attention of the Government of Thailand for comments.

(g) The Sub-Commission should also recommend to the Commission on Human Rights that it incite the Government of Thailand:

(i) to adopt and officially enforce strict legislation on the prohibition

of the sale of children and punishment of the perpetrators and

(ii) to take practical measures in the economic and social field in order

to eliminate the causes of this form of slavery.