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Tuesday 26 June 2007
Spokesperson: Jean-Philippe Chauzy |
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LAO PDR - ASEAN and IOM Launch Human Trafficking
Report
BANGLADESH-Prevention and Protection of Victims
of Human Trafficking
ECUADOR - IOM and WFP Join Forces to Help
Communities on the Northern Border
INDONESIA- Peace Building Programme Benefits
Communities in Aceh
LAO PDR - ASEAN and IOM Launch Human Trafficking
Report - ASEAN and IOM today launched a major
report on human trafficking in Cambodia,
Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand.
The report, "ASEAN and Trafficking in Persons:
Using Data as a Tool to Combat Trafficking in
Persons", outlines best practices for data
collection in a field where accurate statistics
are nearly impossible to compile due to the
clandestine and criminal nature of the industry.
The study, which was launched at the ASEAN
Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crime
(SOMTC) in Vientiane today, outlines and
compares how each country is coping with the
challenge and identifies gaps and weaknesses in
national systems that still allow victims to
fall through the gaps and help traffickers to
evade prosecution.
The authors make recommendations including
adoption of best practices, improved
communication between agencies, improved
information management systems and better
training for officials involved in data
collection.
The report, which was funded by the US
government, "will help to arm decision-makers
with effective tools they need to make important
decisions about how to combat trafficking," says
ASEAN Secretary General Ong Keng Yong.
Experts agree that human trafficking in Asia
remains a major challenge for governments,
international organizations and NGOs. Between
April 2005 and October 2006, IOM Indonesia's
Recovery Centres for Trafficking Victims located
in three police hospitals treated a total of
1,650 victims, of whom 26 percent were children.
"Estimates suggest that there are between 1.4
and 2.1 million Indonesian women working abroad.
We know that many are working in abusive
situations, but we need far better data to
identify how many are in fact victims of
trafficking," says IOM Indonesia counter
trafficking specialist Kristen Dadey.
"In Cambodia there is a huge amount of data
about human trafficking, but it's currently
dispersed between as many as 80 government
departments and other agencies working in the
field. We need a more coherent approach if we
are really going to make a difference," says IOM
Cambodia counter trafficking expert John
McGeoghan.
The report is available at www.iom.int
For more information please contact Lance Bonneau at IOM Bangkok.
Tel. +66 2 343 9300, Email: lbonneau@iom.int.
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