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Govt. to prepare action plan against women and children trafficking: Matin
DHAKA, Bangladesh, June 18 (BSS)- Home Affairs Adviser of Bangladesh
caretaker government Major General (retd) Mohammad Abdul Matin today said the government has taken initiatives to prepare national plan of action for combating trafficking women and children.
"Trafficking in human beings is a fast growing high profit-
low risk crime and we all have to speed up and put our efforts
together to keep up with criminal syndicates," he said while
inaugurating a new investigation unit of police against human
trafficking at a city hotel here.
The new unit titled 'Trafficking in Human Beings (THB)
Investigation Unit' under the Criminal Investigation Department
(CID) will focus only the human trafficking issue.
Home secretary Mohammad Abdul Karim, Inspector General of
police Nur Mohammad, Additional Inspector General of police N B K
Tripura, Additional Inspector General M A Jalil, Executive
Director of Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association Salma
Ali spoke on the occasion.
The adviser said, human trafficking is a cross border crime
which require close cooperation among various agencies including
political, judicial and law enforcement within the country, among
nations within the region as well as in global context.
"Reportedly 400,000 Bangladeshi women are engaged in forced
prostitution in India and 300,000 Bangladeshi boys have been
trafficked to India," Matin said, adding, "according to a report
every day 50 Bangladeshi girls are lured across the Indian border
and sold."
The adviser said Pakistan and oil-rich Arab states are the
principal destinations of Bangladeshi children. Boys are mostly
taken to the Persian Gulf to work as camel jockeys or farm
workers while the girls often end up working in brothels in India
and Pakistan, he added.
He said the government is providing support to the NGOs and
other organizations to strengthen their capacity in combating
trafficking and exploitation of women and children, establish a
network to protect them, create mass awareness and undertake data
collection, documentation and in-depth research.
The government is working to reform legislation to ensure
stiff penalties for trafficking and to rescue, rehabilitate and
reintegrate trafficked survivors.
Greater efforts are being made by government to increase and
improve shelter capacity and rehabilitation programmes of
trafficked survivors, the Home Adviser said. - BSS
caretaker government Major General (retd) Mohammad Abdul Matin today said the government has taken initiatives to prepare national plan of action for combating trafficking women and children.
"Trafficking in human beings is a fast growing high profit-
low risk crime and we all have to speed up and put our efforts
together to keep up with criminal syndicates," he said while
inaugurating a new investigation unit of police against human
trafficking at a city hotel here.
The new unit titled 'Trafficking in Human Beings (THB)
Investigation Unit' under the Criminal Investigation Department
(CID) will focus only the human trafficking issue.
Home secretary Mohammad Abdul Karim, Inspector General of
police Nur Mohammad, Additional Inspector General of police N B K
Tripura, Additional Inspector General M A Jalil, Executive
Director of Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association Salma
Ali spoke on the occasion.
The adviser said, human trafficking is a cross border crime
which require close cooperation among various agencies including
political, judicial and law enforcement within the country, among
nations within the region as well as in global context.
"Reportedly 400,000 Bangladeshi women are engaged in forced
prostitution in India and 300,000 Bangladeshi boys have been
trafficked to India," Matin said, adding, "according to a report
every day 50 Bangladeshi girls are lured across the Indian border
and sold."
The adviser said Pakistan and oil-rich Arab states are the
principal destinations of Bangladeshi children. Boys are mostly
taken to the Persian Gulf to work as camel jockeys or farm
workers while the girls often end up working in brothels in India
and Pakistan, he added.
He said the government is providing support to the NGOs and
other organizations to strengthen their capacity in combating
trafficking and exploitation of women and children, establish a
network to protect them, create mass awareness and undertake data
collection, documentation and in-depth research.
The government is working to reform legislation to ensure
stiff penalties for trafficking and to rescue, rehabilitate and
reintegrate trafficked survivors.
Greater efforts are being made by government to increase and
improve shelter capacity and rehabilitation programmes of
trafficked survivors, the Home Adviser said. - BSS
