Trafficking Issue: SAC Member Stresses Suppression Of Trafficking In Persons

Member of the State Administration Council [SAC], Union Minister for Home Affairs Lt-Gen Soe Htut, in his capacity as Chairman of the Central Body for Suppression of Trafficking in Persons, addressed the meeting 1/2022 of the central body.

During the meeting on Monday in Nay Pyi Taw, the SAC member Union Minister said there should be a proper departmental communication system for human trafficking suppression, prevention and preparation activities focusing on the Five-Year National Plan of Action to Combat Human Trafficking. He also highlighted the need to look at what are the current forms of human trafficking, the relation between political, social, economic and trafficking issues, the reasons for the occurrence of trafficking against poverty, economic vulnerability and social standards and victim recruitment of traffickers using modern technologies.

All should participate in conducting prescriptions of international and regional agreements, decisions of conferences and meetings. In the 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report of the US, Myanmar is a Tier-3 ranking with 13 recommendations which are being carried out in Myanmar.

The report does not reflect the real situation of the country, the Union Minister added. The meeting continued with the Working Group on Prevention of Trafficking in Persons and Protection of Trafficked Victims, Working Group on Legal Affairs and Prosecution, Working Committee on Repatriation, Reintegration and Rehabilitation of victims of trafficking and the region and state anti-trafficking task forces reporting on their respective sectors for anti-trafficking activities.