Friday, February 26, 2016

The Government approved the National Social Programme on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings for the period until 2020

At its meeting the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted a resolution "On approval of National Social Programme on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings for the period until 2020".
The document was developed to ensure implementation of the National Action Plan on implementation of the second phase of the Action Plan on Liberalization of the EU visa regime for Ukrainian citizens.

In his presentation of the act, Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine Pavlo Rozenko noted the importance of the adoption of the National Program, which will allow to identify concrete measures to combat human trafficking, to outline the responsibilities and directions of work of central and local executive authorities in these issues. The Programme aims to prevent trafficking in persons, to improve the efficiency of identifying those committingrelevant crimes or participating in such crimes, to protect the rights and provide assistance to victims of trafficking.
The adoption of the National Programme will afford:
·          to ensure implementation of a comprehensive national policy on combating human trafficking;
·          to increase the efficiency of central and local executive authorities in the sphere of combating human trafficking;
·          to enhance interaction between public authorities, international, public organizations and other legal entities in the sphere of combating human trafficking;
·          to raise public awareness on issues connected to trafficking and assistance when getting in such situation;

·          to improve the skills of civil servants, in particular in law enforcement and judicial sectors etc.

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