92 ... ... ... ... .. RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN There was also a need to: ● Create a network for the exchange of information on new developments in respect of national/international initiatives against sexual exploitation of women and children in the hotel and tourism industry. ● Implement existing laws on prevention of sex tourism and trafficking in a more stringent manner. Where necessary, the laws should be amended or strengthened and law enforcement agencies must be sensitized to sex tourism and trafficking. ● Expand the existing rehabilitation services for rescued victims of sex tourism and trafficking and to improve the quality of services available there. Further, ● The sensitization programme called upon the hotel and tourism industry to adopt a code of conduct amongst association(s) of hoteliers and tour operators for prevention of sex tourism and trafficking. ● In order to evolve an effective strategy to combat sex tourism and trafficking as well as to monitor the performance of hotel and tourism industry, there was need to organize a meeting of State Secretaries of Tourism in the near future. ● The participants also expressed the view that there was need to create a task force to ensure the effective implementation of strategies devised to prevent and detect sex tourism and trafficking, and to prosecute traffickers as well as sex tourists in the country where the crime is committed and/or in the country to which the offender belongs. 7.20 In a meeting held on 15 January 2003, the Commission accepted the above recommendations made during the one-day sensitization programme and decided to initiate follow-up action on it. 4) NHRC, India - NHRC, Nepal Joint Project for Combating Cross-Border Trafficking 7.21 On 7 November 2002, the Commission held preliminary discussions with a team from the National Human Rights Commission of Nepal to consider the 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