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Date 16
December 2003
Press Release No: N/35/2003
COMBATING HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN ASIA
UNESCAP launches resource guide
BANGKOK (United Nations Information Services)
-- A resource guide to combating human trafficking in Asia will
be launched by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia
and the Pacific on Friday, 19 December 2003 at the UN Conference
Centre in Bangkok.
Participants of note include Mr Kim Hak-Su, UNESCAP
Executive Secretary, Mr. Mohamed Naseer, South Asian Association
for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Ms. Irena Vojackova-Sollorano,
International Office of Migration, and Professor Vitit Muntabhorn,
Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University.
The publication, entitled Combating Human Trafficking
in Asia: A Resource Guide to International and Regional Legal
Instruments, Political Commitments and Recommendations, provides
a comprehensive framework for using legal and other instruments
to combat trafficking in persons, especially women and children.
It portrays trafficking as a multidimensional
problem involving various forms of exploitation including those
involving human rights, slavery and slavery-like practices,
trafficking, migration, labour, and gender. The Resource Guide
calls for a multifaceted response to trafficking utilizing the
complete range of legal and other instruments relevant to all
dimensions of trafficking.
The publication is part of UNESCAP's ongoing efforts
to raise awareness of the range of legal instruments available
to governments to fight human trafficking.
It was spawned at a regional seminar on legal
instruments organized jointly by UNESCAP and the International
Organization for Migration in August 2001. The Seminar served
as a forum for sharing national, bilateral and subregional experiences
in combating trafficking and aimed to incorporate lessons learned
into national policy. The Resource Guide was field-tested at
sub-regional seminars held in South East Asia, South Asia and
Central Asia in 2002.
Note to Editors: You or your representatives are
invited to attend the launch of the Resource Guide on Friday,
19 December 2003 from 09:15-10:15 hrs in the Theatre of the
UN Conference Centre.
For further information please contact United
Nations Information Services Bangkok, Tel: (66) 02 288 1864-9,
Fax: (66) 02 288 1052, E-mail: unisbkk.unescap@un.org.
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