WORKSHOP of discussion on steering measures and conducting the Project “Community based Communication on Prevention of and Combating against Trafficking in Women and Children”

Attending the workshop was Ms. Nguyen Phuong Minh, Vice-President of VWU, Head of the Steering Committee of the Project; representatives from Ministry of Public Security; Committee for Population, Family and Children; Ministry of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs; Ministry of Education and Training; Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ministry of Culture and Information. Chiefs and deputy chiefs of departments and units from the Central VWU were also present.

A report was presented that was about various activities of community communication o­n the prevention of and combating against trafficking in women and children in the past. It informed that the trafficking in women and children has become a problem globally and is a dangerous criminal case with sophisticated, cunning tricks, seriously injuring women and children’s honour, human dignity, life and health. Although prevention work to date has achieved some positive results, a lot of work is still needed to be done. The project of community communication o­n prevention of and combating against trafficking in women and children, period 2004-2010 (or The 1^st project- approved by the Government, presided over by the Central VWU) focuses o­n community communication and education laws and policies, raising public awareness about the prevention of and combating against trafficking in women and children.

On 24^th, May 2006 Mme Ha Thi Khiet, President of VWU o­n behalf of the Presidium of VWU, signed a decision to establish a Project Steering Committee.

The Drafted Regulation of Operation of the Project Steering Committee in the period 2005-2010 was presented. In the workshop, members of the Project Steering Committee also discussed o­n measures of implementing the 1^st Project, possibility of inter- sectors coordinating activities to prevent and combat against trafficking in women and children, integrating this project with other projects of the National Program of Actions o­n Prevention and Combating against Trafficking in Women and Children in the period 2005-2010 and finalizing the Project Steering Committee’s Operation Regulation.

According to Information Centre

Translated by VWU’s Int’l Relations Department