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Training Mongolian officials on trafficking and smuggling

Source: UNGIFT.HUB

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( IOM ) -  With rising numbers of Mongolian labour migrants moving overseas, there has been an increase in human trafficking, particularly of young Mongolian women for the purpose of sexual exploitation. As a destination country, foreign victims are most commonly trafficked to Mongolia for forced labour, particularly in the construction and mining sectors.

  

  

To help mitigate these trends IOM is hosting a three-day workshop in Ulan Bator next week for 35 Mongolian government officials, to strengthen their response to document fraud, migrant smuggling, and human trafficking.

The workshop, for officials from the Mongolian Immigration Agency (MIA) and the General Authority on Border Protection (GABP), will address the challenge of managing irregular migration, smuggling and human trafficking in Mongolia.

"This specialised training will greatly contribute to the Mongolian Government's counter-trafficking efforts by providing nominated MIA and GABP trainers with the opportunity to understand the fundamental issues," said Vice Director of Immigration Mongolia, M. Munkhbat.

"This workshop will provide Mongolian frontline immigration officers and border guards with the necessary skills to better detect fraudulent travel documents and to more effectively interview and identify victims of trafficking," said Officer in Charge of IOM Mongolia, Kieran Gorman-Best. "We are delighted to have trainers from IOM as well as the governments of Australia, Canada and China working with us on this."

This activity is part of IOM's 'Strengthening the Management of Labour Migration and Counter-Trafficking in Mongolia' project funded by its international Development Fund. In the past year, IOM, in partnership with the Mongolian Gender Equality Centre, have provided direct assistance to over 60 victims of trafficking.

The Protection Project: 100 Best Practices in Combating Trafficking in Persons

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Source: UN.GIFT

Mar 12 2013

Tags: Awareness-raising, Legal framework, Victim assistance, Sex trafficking, Labour trafficking, Organ trafficking, Trafficking and gender,Trafficking in children, Report/handbook/toolkit, NGO, Business, Civil-Society, Governments, modern-day slavery

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Over the past decade, civil society has played a pivotal role in the fight against trafficking in persons. A multifaceted and complex phenomenon, trafficking in persons must be addressed at various levels. Members of civil society have worked alone or by joining forces with law enforcement groups, legislators, national governments, and international organizations while designing strategies of prevention, protection, prosecution, advocacy, and research. The Protection Project encourages the dissemination of information about the best ways to combat trafficking in persons by recommending five main components of civil society: (a) nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), (b) corporations, (c) academia, (d) media, and (e) faith-based organizations. The Protection Project’s 100 Best Practices in Combating Trafficking in Persons: The Role of Civil Society offers examples of some successful initiatives that have been undertaken by representatives of those five main categories. This publication is intended to serve as a guide in the design and implementation of anti-trafficking practices worldwide, as well as to inform the general public about outstanding contributions to the fight against trafficking in persons.

OSCE Special Representative, at Alliance conference in Vienna, says discrimination cause of trafficking

OSCE Special Representative, at Alliance conference in Vienna, says discrimination cause of trafficking

( OSCE) -  The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, at an OSCE-hosted conference, outlined today how discrimination serves as an underlying cause of human trafficking and called for new strategies to fight these injustices.

"Discrimination on any grounds makes people vulnerable to trafficking and offers easy justification for exploitation," Giammarinaro said. "We witness every day the production of xenophobic stereotypes about migrant workers, hampering the perception that they could be victims of a serious crime. Social inclusion is the ultimate goal of our struggle, both in countries of origin and destination."

She said she hoped the Conference would contribute to a vision of anti-trafficking action as part of the human rights discourse with new advocacy strategies that would include lessons from the historical abolitionist movement.

OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier underlined the link between human rights and trafficking in the OSCE context.

"We cannot afford to underestimate the gravity of discrimination and exploitation as cross-cutting components of trafficking, seriously undermining the core values of the OSCE," he said. "Together we will find better ways to address modern-day slavery through empowerment, non-discrimination and human rights protection, through vigorous implementation of the OSCE commitments."

The OSCE-initiated 12th Alliance against Trafficking in Persons Conference brings together more than 300 senior government officials, national anti-trafficking co-ordinators and rapporteurs, representatives from international and non-governmental organizations, law enforcement agencies and trade unions, as well as employers' organizations and migrants' rights groups. Special guests include Kenneth Morris, president of the Frederick Douglass Family Foundation and UN.GIFT Special Advisor and child trafficking survivor Rani Hong. The director of the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Janez Lenarčič, the High Commissioner on National Minorities, Knut Vollebaek, as well as European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights Director Morten Kjaerum are also among the high-level speakers at the conference.

Two Israelis Arrested For Organ Trafficking

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Two Jerusalem residents have been arrested on suspicion of organ trafficking in an affair cleared for publication on Thursday. The police know of at least 10 Israelis who agreed to donate a kidney, most of them due to financial difficulties.

Jerusalem Police investigators waited for the two suspects, Sami Shem-Tov and Dmitry Orenstein, at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem on Sunday. They are believed to have arrived there to perform a tissue analysis on two other people.

Organ Trafficking Israel Ad (in Russian) According to the suspicions, the two published newspaper ads offering to mediate in kidney donations. They would then connect between a person seeking to sell a kidney and a person seeking to buy one.

Each such surgery would cost about $200,000. The operation would be performed abroad, mostly in South America or China.

For each such mediation, Shem-Tov and Orenstein were said to have received tens of thousands of dollars. The people who sold their kidney received only a small part of this sum. The police are now checking how many such deals took place and how long the activity lasted.

Accused Organ Trafficker Sami Shem Tov A day after their arrest, the two suspects were brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, where their remand was extended. Orenstein was placed under house arrest on Wednesday.

According to the organ transplant law, organ trafficking and selling is forbidden. The law went into effect last year and since then the act is considered a criminal offense.

Superintendent Gilad Behat, head of the Jerusalem Police's fraud division, said that 10 people seeking to sell their kidney have been questioned so far. "There may have been additional deals which were implemented," he added.

At this stage, the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital is not believed to be linked to the affair, although the two suspects were arrested on its premises.

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