proposals where appropriate in order to ensure that these provisions conform with the fundamental principles of human rights both in their direct and indirect application. 3. The APF should commission two of its member institutions (one from a source State and other from the host State) to undertake a pilot project to work together on the issue of trafficking and to use the results of the projects to develop a broad framework for regional co-operation. The pilot project should be designed with a long-term perspective to ensure sustainability of interventions. 4. NHRI’s should review the responses of governmental agencies to the proposed project and should encourage governments to develop inter-agency strategies to ensure a coordinated and effective approach by the various agencies involved. 5. NHRIs should urge State parties to create a Specialised Task Force that shall bring together all appropriate and relevant Ministries, departments and representatives of the civil society and victims to address the issues surrounding trafficking. 6. NHRIs should encourage governments to establish Specialised Investigative Units within the Police devoted entirely to anti-trafficking enforcement efforts. Special Officers of the NHRC should be recruited in the same. 7. NHRIs should develop systems of regional co-operation by encouraging States to develop a bilateral or regional database on trafficked persons and bilateral arrangements to facilitate exchange of information and repatriation. 8. NHRIs should encourage governments to establish special procedures within the judicial system such as courts with Special powers to ensure that prompt prosecutions of traffickers are heard without any adjournment except in the most exceptional of circumstances, and measures that would ensure that victims of trafficking are not removed by way of deportation from the jurisdiction of the prosecutorial Court before the conclusion of criminal proceedings against traffickers. 9. NHRIs should encourage governments to ensure that courts with Special powers are established at the local and district levels. 10. NHRIs should help develop a Code of Conduct within the context of the UN Guidelines and Principles on Human Rights and Human Trafficking: • places for trafficked women to stay pending deportation with adequate access to services such as legal aid, counselling, medical and other essential services; • ensuring that trafficked women have access to their country's diplomatic representation in compliance with the Vienna Convention on Consular Access; • an avoidance of mandatory deportation in circumstances where a return to the original State may expose victims of trafficking to further exploitation and persecution, and where premature expulsion from the host State may jeopardize victims’ access to civil redress for loss of income and other entitlements owed to them in return for their labour; 94