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Children speak out on human trafficking
By Wah Eh Htoo on 14 Aug 2007
Children from poor and venerable communities and former trafficked victims have recently gathered at Yangon, sharing their views about the danger of human trafficking and how to prevent it.
About 30 children from three of World Vision's Area Development Programmes, plus former street children and trafficked victims, participated in the two-day forum on August 3 and 4.
Ma Khin Ei Ei Aung, the co-ordinator of WV's anti-trafficking department, said the forum is designed to get information that would be useful in prevention of the human trafficking. ''It was very successful, as children poured out their views which are really useful for our future programmes."
Children shared their views through debating, playing games, drawing cartoons and other activities.
It was co-organised by World Vision Myanmar, United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (UNIAP) and Save the Children.
More of such forums are scheduled in the coming days to be conducted in seven townships, which are hotspots among human traffickers. Women and children are often preyed upon by human traffickers who promise well-paying jobs in neighbouring countries. They end up being sold into brothels and forced into slave labour.
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