90 ... ... ... ... .. RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN ● convening two-day State level Consultations, one day with NGOs and the police, and the other with the judicial officers and public prosecutors. 7.15 In addition, it was also proposed that a National Consultation would be convened to pre-test the draft manual once it was ready. It was further decided that visits would be made by the project staff of NLSIU to the concerned NGOs working with sex workers or children of sex workers or child sex workers, state homes for women and juvenile homes for girls so as to enable them to assess the magnitude of the problem of trafficking in each of the States proposed to be studied. During these visits, the project staff would also interact with advocates and members of the judiciary so as to ascertain their views. 7.16 At the time of writing this report, the NLSIU had convened state-level consultations with the concerned NGOs, police, public prosecutors and judicial officers of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Goa and had also collected information from the judicial officers of these States using the questionnaire that had been devised. Work on the preparation of the draft manual is well underway. 3] Sensitization Programme on Prevention of Sex Tourism and Trafficking 7.17 The Commission, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the Women's Institute for Social Education, Mumbai organized a one-day Sensitization Programme on Prevention of Sex Tourism and Trafficking on 12 January 2003 in Mumbai. The participants included key administrators, policy makers, lawyers, human rights experts, senior representatives of hotel and tourism industry and representatives of non-governmental organizations working in the field, in addition to personnel of the Commission. 7.18 The primary objective of the programme was to sensitize senior representatives of the hotel and tourism industry on various issues relating to sex tourism and trafficking. 7.19 Keeping in view this objective, the programme deliberated on two main themes: 'Legal Dimensions of Sex Trafficking' and 'Sex Trafficking and Links with Tourism: Perspectives, Solutions and Challenges'. Participants in the programme expressed concern that sex tourism and trafficking were organized N AT I O N A L H U M A N R I G H T S C O M M I S S I O N

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