GloAct against human trafficking launched
Kathmandu / March 7: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today announced the implementation of Global Action against trafficking in persons and the smuggling of migrants in thirteen countries including Nepal, on the occasion of the 107th International Women’s Day.
The joint initiative by the UNODC and the European Union (EU) is supported by the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and shall remain in effect until 2019.
At a programme here today, representatives of the GloAct partner organisations highlighted the need and importance of this initiative to control human trafficking and smuggling of migrants remaining as social taboos.
The aim of the campaign is to assist the selected countries in developing and implementing comprehensive national counter-trafficking and counter-smuggling responses.
These organisations will cooperate with the Office of Attorney General in Nepal to seek a legal remedy for survivors, assist the Nepal Police in setting up a special unit to effectively combat against human trafficking and smuggling of migrants, help protect rights of those survivors staying in the rehabilitation centres and guarantee their rights to live with dignity. Supporting the survivors in skill enhancement efforts and to be rehabilitated in the society, protection of child rights and prompting the selected countries to adopt a zero-tolerance any sorts of abuses against women and adolescent girls working in the entertainment industry are other priorities of the campaign.
On the occasion, Joint Secretary at the Ministry Women, Children, and Social Welfare, Radhika Aryal, said the government was seriously working to combat trafficking in persons and necessary acts including the anti-gender based violence act had already been endorsed and implemented.
Mr Sergey Kapinos, Representative, UNODC Regional Office for South Asia insisted on the collective efforts to fight against trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants taking place worldwide.
The Action has been enforced in Brazil and Colombia (in South America) Egypt, Morocco, Mali, Niger and South Africa (Africa), Belarus and Ukraine ( Eastern Europe) and Nepal, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan (Asia). RSS