the unanimous decision by the OSCE PA Standing Committee in February 2016 to establish an Ad Hoc Committee on Migration, 11. Reaffirming OSCE and OSCE PA efforts to enhance awareness of gender issues in the context of migration and to promote the development of gender-responsive policies, programmes and services, including through the 2004 Ministerial Council Decision on Gender Equality (MC.DEC/14/04), OSCE Ministerial Council Decision No. 5/09 on Migration Management (MC.DEC/5/09), as well as OSCE PA resolutions on Gender Aspects of Labour Migration (2013), and on Integrating Gender-Based Analysis and Gender Mainstreaming in the Response to the Migrant and Refugee Crisis (2016), 12. Underlining the crucial importance of dismantling migrant smuggling and human trafficking networks in order to redirect migrants and refugees into safe and orderly flows and to prevent further deaths and human suffering, 13. Reaffirming OSCE commitments to fighting human trafficking in migrant and refugee flows in this area, in particular the OSCE Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings and its 2013 Addendum; and commending the efforts of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings to develop action-oriented recommendations to better prevent and respond to human trafficking, including in migrant and refugee flows, 14. Commending the 2016 German OSCE Chairmanship for establishing an Informal Working Group Focusing on the Issue of Migration and Refugee Flows, and acknowledging the significant contribution made by this body in identifying the main dimensions of a comprehensive OSCE approach as well as offering concrete recommendations, 15. Welcoming OSCE Ministerial Council Decision No. 3/16 on the OSCE’s Role in the Governance of Large Movements of Migrants and Refugees (MC.DEC/3/16), 16. Regretting nevertheless that OSCE participating States failed to agree upon concrete commitments to mainstream the issue of refugees and migrants into the OSCE’s comprehensive approach to security, 17. Expressing support for smart security policies that denounce xenophobia in all its forms and promote tolerance and freedom of religion for all, based upon the understanding that discriminatory and xenophobic policies violate human rights commitments and do not serve to promote peace and security, 18. Reaffirming that the OSCE and many participating States, acting in accordance with longstanding OSCE tolerance and non-discrimination, religious freedom and national minority commitments, have been able to help promote peace and security in Europe without resorting to short-sighted, ineffective, and troubling anti-refugee, anti-migrant, or anti-Muslim policies, such as building walls and criminalizing refugees and migrants, 19. Highlighting the significant efforts made by OSCE frontline countries such as Turkey, Italy, and Greece which continue to host a disproportionate share of migrants and refugees, 20