Project to prevent human trafficking launched
The Global Action to Prevent and Address Trafficking in Persons and the Smuggling of Migrants (GLO.ACT), a four-year joint initiative by the European Union (EU) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), was launched here on Wednesday.
GLO.ACT is a coordinated response to trafficking in persons and the smuggling of migrants and aims to strengthen the criminal justice response in 13 strategically selected countries across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America Belarus, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Kyrgyz Republic, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mali, Morocco, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, South Africa and Ukraine.
The project, implemented in partnership with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), reaffirms that combating human trafficking and migrant smuggling is of the highest importance for the EU and the United Nations as a whole and UNODC as custodian of relevant convention of transnational organised crime which incorporates protocols of human trafficking and migrant smuggling.
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