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Focal point groups to fight TIP
by GINA News
Posted: Jan 29, 2008 15:00 UTC
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GEORGETOWN (GINA) - The Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Unit of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security in its continuing efforts to fight the offence will launch focal point groups to counter TIP in communities throughout Guyana.
Technical Officer of the TIP department, Javed Shadick said that this is another effort by the Ministry to further minimize this criminal activity.
The Ministry has been training personnel in various communities to be adequately equipped to respond when reports are made by residents.
It was noted that these personnel were trained to recognise the three phases of TIP, identifying, preventing and protecting persons.
With the official launching of these groups, authority will be given to these personnel to track unusual situations in their communities and act immediately.
Several seminars were held during last year to heighten the public’s awareness of the issue and ways of recognizing and preventing it.
During the Ministry’s consultations on the sexual violence Paper “Stamp it out”, Shadick interacted with residents to increase their awareness on TIP and how to guard against it.
He said more people were made aware of the issue and hopefully it would reduce the amount of exploitation in the country.
TIP is a serious human rights violation and modern day slavery and the Government through the Ministry of Human Services has been working to eradicate this scourge.
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