”It is crucial that we start treating victims of trafficking as victims in need of help and assistance, not as illegal immigrants that should be kicked out of the country as soon as possible” said Line Barfod, Member of the Danish Parliament and Chairperson of the BSPC Working Group on Civil Security in her address today to the Regional Seminar on Human Trafficking, arranged in London by the Inter-Parliamentary Union. “Such an approach is necessary to combat and halt this modern slavery, and it calls for close cooperation across borders by parliamentarians”, Barfod emphasized.
One of the central objectives of the IPU Seminar that runs for 22-23 February is to discuss how parliamentarians are involved in ensuring the enforcement and implementation of existing legislation against trafficking in human beings.