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CRC Article 19 - 1. States Parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse, while in the care of parent(s), legal guardian(s) or any other person who has the care of the child. 2. Such protective measures should, as appropriate, include effective procedures for the establishment of social programmes to provide necessary support for the child and for those who have the care of the child, as well as for other forms of prevention and for identification, reporting, referral, investigation, treatment and follow-up of instances of child maltreatment described heretofore, and, as appropriate, for judicial involvement.
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CEDAW - 25 The State party should: (a) Strengthen the implementation of the Prevention of Human Trafficking Act, including by enhancing capacity-building efforts for law enforcement and border patrol officers in order to increase their ability to identify potential victims of trafficking; (b) Allocate adequate human, financial and technical resources to the Government Oversight Committee, as well as for the implementation of the National Action Plan against Human Trafficking; (c) Establish appropriate protocols aimed at the early identification and referral of, and assistance to and support for, victims of trafficking, especially migrant and rural women, and develop mechanisms for the investigation, prosecution and punishment of trafficking offenders; (d) Systematically collect information on trafficking in women and girls to, from and within the State party in order to take informed measures to tackle the phenomenon, and conduct research on the internal trafficking risk factors to which women and girls from rural and remote islands travelling to Male or other islands for educational or employment opportunities are exposed and take measures to reduce such risks; (e) Consider ratifying the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 
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