Image via Wikipedia BANGKOK, Thailand--(UPDATE) Senior officials in Mekong have vowed to step up efforts to curb human trafficking in the Asian sub-region.
"Stopping human trafficking is a responsibility of all. But the government has the biggest responsibility in addressing this problem," Zhang Yanhong, chief of All-China Women's Federation of China, said at the conclusion of the 3rd Mekong Youth Forum here Friday.
Thirty youth leaders from Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam met with the officials to recommend ways on how to address the issues of migration and human trafficking that have been affecting children and the youth in Mekong.
About 200,000 people, including children, are trafficked annually in Mekong for forced labor, prostitution, begging and even forced marriage.
Saw Win, director of Myanmar's Department of Social Welfare under the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, told the forum that he would bring up the recommendations raised by the youth leaders during the 2010 senior officials meeting in Yangon.
The youth leaders, in their five-page recommendations, asked Mekong governments to provide better protection for migrant workers and their children.
They also recommended the formation of a regional youth committee on migration and trafficking, greater participation of the youth in policy-making processes and inclusion of trafficking and migration in the school curriculum.
Source: Inquirer.Net
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