Human Trafficking

1. on 21 November 2013,
at the Hilton Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria

2.  Some National Experience
 Some Good Practices from the
National Experience
 Obstacles or Challenges in Practice
 Some concerns to reflect on about
the Draft
 Recommendations

3. Most countries in the sub regions have laws, or legislations to
deal with traffickers and to support victims;
 In Ghana we have adopted the 5Rs approach
 Research (Intelligence, surveillance, etc which helps in
identifications)
 Rescue
 Rehabilitation (provide psychosocial, medical screening
and treatment, funding, shelter, counselling, )
 Reunification or Return ( family tracing where necessary,
Home assessments, consular support, at times air/bus
tickets, at times police escort where necessary
 Reintegration: (some form of empowerment, like
vocational training, helping deal with stigma, adjusting
into their communities of origins,

4. The rationale behind rehabilitation is to enable the
children rescued to reach full recovery and complete the
healing process in order to give the child/victims an
opportunity to have a promising future
 Some NGOs in Ghana run Shelter that the government
and law enforcement used. But not enough
 Others Sponsors the Dept. of SocialWelfare to help in
the rehabilitation of the children they rescued
 They provide Psychosocial support, Counseling
 Medical Screening andTreatment
 NeedsAssessment
- etc

5.  HelpVictim resettle in Community of origin
 School/Vocational Placement where necessary
 Provision of support to parents or guardians where
victims are children
 Micro credit and Micro grants to victims
 Monitoring
 some form of empowerment, like vocational training,
helping deal with stigma, adjusting into their
communities of origins,
 Educational Campaigns
 Empowerment ofVulnerable parents in these
community of Origins or the source communities

6.  Government working together with NGOs
 Institutionalization of anti-trafficking curricula in training
centers, i.e. police and immigration academies,
 Development of Anti HumanTrafficking Fund
 Collaboration with INTERPOL
 Using the 5Rs approach which leads to specialized care by
actors
 School feeding Program (Helps in InternalTrafficking)
 Free and Compulsory Basic Education (Helps in Internal
Trafficking)

7.  Lack of government Commitment or PoliticalWill
(other economic pressing needs, these things doesn’t
affect elections results)
 Lack of Funding from Governments
 No structures and systems for effective
implementations (shelters, bureaucracies, etc)
 Most of the support are donor driven (INGO and Inter-
Governmental and NGO) when their funding stopped
victims suffers)
 High cost of victim care

8.  7. States shall:
 (a) Place the best interests of trafficked persons at the
centre in providing measures of restitution;
 Some of the victims have Stockholm Syndrome and
are on the side of the traffickers. What happens?
 (b) Provide trafficked persons with temporary or
permanent residence status as a form of remedy
where a safe return to the country of origin cannot be
guaranteed, may place them at risk of persecution or
further human rights violations, or is otherwise not in
their best interests;
 If victims still want to go what happens?

9.  (c) Effectively address the root causes of
trafficking in order to ensure that trafficked
persons are not returned to the pre-existing
situation which places them at risk of being re-
trafficked or further human rights violations.
 Most governments are aware of the root
causes. Studies and researches have come out
with these causes but yet are not addressing
it, what should be the way forward?

10.  8. States shall:
 (a) Provide a non-conditional reflection and recovery
period, during which trafficked persons are provided
with measures necessary for the physical,
psychological and social recovery, including, but are
not limited to: appropriate housing, counselling and
information about their situations and legal rights;
medical, psychological and material assistance; and
employment, educational and training opportunities;
 For how long and if the State Parties don’t have the
means what happens?

11.  Traffickers properties and funds when
confiscated should be used for remedies of
victims
 Budget allocation for effective remedies
 View victim protection as a State Policy
 Strong witness protection systems

12. For your Attention