Myanmar to extend five more years of anti-human trafficking program
The Myanmar authorities will extend its ending five-year anti-human trafficking program (2007- 2011) to five more years (2012-2016), a local media reported Wednesday.
Based on achievement on the present five-year anti-human trafficking program (2007-2011), the authorities will step up crackdown on human trafficking in 40 more townships in the country with new strategies covering knowledge dissemination work such as distributing pamphlets containing information on human trafficking, erecting billboards, sticking stickers on city buses, said the Pyi Myanmar.
"As part of the efforts to bring down human trafficking cases in the country, it will be effective if we block all the areas where human trafficking cases mostly occur," the anti-human trafficking authority at the central level was quoted as saying.
According to official figures, Myanmar exposed 731 human trafficking cases from September 2001 to September 2005, punishing 2,043 human traffickers and rescuing 1,298 victims.
Shan state-North, Kachin state and Yangon and Mandalay region stood the areas where most of the human trafficking cases occurred with children and women being mainly trafficked.
Over the past several years, through the arrangement of the Social Welfare Department, thousands of trafficked Myanmar people were repatriated from neighboring Thailand, China, Malaysia, Japan, Bangladesh, Jamaica and Singapore as well as China's Macao and China's Taiwan.
The Myanmar authorities have formed more anti-human trafficking squads to crack down on human trafficking and the total number of the squads, scattered in Nay Phi Taw, Chin, Kayah and Bago regions and states increased to 26 from 22.
Myanmar promulgated the anti-human trafficking law in 2005 and has also been cooperating with the international community in combating human trafficking and carrying out rescue and rehabilitation programs for trafficked victims.
Editor: Wang Guanqun
English.news.cn 2011-09-21 19:26:16 FeedbackPrintRSS
YANGON, Sept. 21 (Xinhua)
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