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
committing relevant crimes or participating in such crimes, to protect the rights
and provide assistance to victims of trafficking.
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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. |