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| Tuesday, 25 May 2004 |
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A regional workshop on 'National Laws to Combat Trafficking in South Asia: Sharing of Research Studies', organised by the United Nations Development Fund for Women in association with the American Center for International Labour Solidarity (ACILS) will be held on May 25 and 26 at Trans Asia Hotel, Colombo. The workshop is supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under its Regional Initiative to combat trafficking in women and children. Partners of UNIFEM from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka will participate at this two-day workshop where research studies of the laws relating to trafficking will be presented and discussed, states a press release by the UNIFEM. UNIFEM in pursuance of its objective of empowering women has been working on the issue of trafficking in women and children with governments, NGOs and other multilateral and bilateral agencies through a regional initiative in South Asia to combat trafficking in women and children. The regional program has addressed the issue of trafficking at multiple levels, dealing with prevention, protection and prosecution. The key objective of the program has been to facilitate the work of Governments, NGOs and civil society to combat trafficking. UNIFEM sees the great need of address trafficking of women and children as a crime with a process starting much before the actual destination and with many perpetrators. It is necessary that this kind of trafficking is made risky and punishable at par with other forms of trafficking like arms or drugs. UNIFEM's main objective through the years has been to make anti-trafficking work rights based as against a moralistic/prostitution centric approach. This is more specifically applicable when working with legal systems and law enforcement agencies. It was in order to implement this rights based approach that UNIFEM initiated research into legal provisions in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to review the existing legal provisions and system that exists to address trafficking. The objective of the researches was to identify gaps and limitations which inhibit the implementation of a right based approach. The studies identified gaps and came out with specific recommendations to address the bottlenecks by initiating programs addressing the law enforcement agencies and institutions in the respective countries. While sharing the research findings at this workshop, UNIFEM will also look at collectively identifying strategies to take forward the recommendations and suggestions made in these intensive studies and provide additional inputs where necessary. |
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