Brazil unveils new plan against human trafficking
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According
to the English.news.cn brief article on Feb 27,2013 the Brazilian government
has announced plans to address human trafficking, including sexual
exploitation, slave labor, illegal adoptions, and human organ-selling. The three year strategic plan plans to
develop and implement tougher laws and
more control of these rising issues using specialized police task forces and a
government hotline for victims to call from anywhere in the world for help. Brazil
also published a government report which outlines how widespread human
trafficking is in Brazil, and how effective (or not) the current laws and
programs currently in place are in stopping the problems.
As the
issues of human trafficking are slowly gaining global attention each country
needs to decide how they want to address them. Brazil did a study to get
information, and then developed a strategy to address the problems over the
next three years. This is a good way to
approach the problem-as long as they follow through and tweek the strategy
along the way to ensure it has a degree of success so victims can be helped,
and offenders can be stopped. If the
plan is successful it might be able to be used as a model for other countries,
or even the world. The problems are
huge, and the offenders so fluid in their ability to avoid detection or arrest
that it will take a whole world working together to catch them.
Shannon Yaw
posted 8:41 3/1/13
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