Position Paper of Republic of the Union of Myanmar On Human Trafficking and Protection of Victims and Refugees
Position Paper of Republic of the Union of Myanmar
To the 11th ASEM Foreign Minister’s Meeting
Enhancing Inter-Regional Prosperity Through Multilateral Framework
On
Migration
“Human Trafficking and Protection of Victims and Refugees”
Myanmar Position on “Human Trafficking and Protection of Victims & Refugees”
Since Myanmar declare its independence in 1948, human trafficking and refugee has been serious issue because of unstable political and economic situation made by military regime. Myanmar faces internal human trafficking and succeed solve 173 cases and imprisoned 234 traffickers in 20101. Myanmar also has 808.075 stateless persons come from Rohingya Clan2 and about 339.200 displaced person3. Besides those two problems, there are lot of our citizen flee abroad. These refugees are very vulnerable to become trafficking victim because there are no refugee camps in the destination country4.
Respond to this case, we have implemented international fundamental framework set by United Nation to combat Human Trafficking, which are Prosecution, Protection, and Prevention5. In prosecution phase, we set several policies by implemented the national laws The Anti-Trafficking in Persons Law 20056. We engage those efforts in association with UNIAP (United Nation Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking)7. The decreasing number of human trafficking cases in Myanmar shows the effectiveness of this program, but the length of punishment for perpetrators of transnational crime is too short, so it does not give chary effect.
As one of a UN member, Myanmar got a responsibility to preserving world peace. Thus, Myanmar contributes to this meeting because Myanmar perceives the impact from human trafficking problem can threaten the human rights of our people. Furthermore, the involvement of Myanmar in this meeting can gives an overview of human trafficking in Southeast Asia, especially in Myanmar. We would also like to inform that we are in transition
To the 11th ASEM Foreign Minister’s Meeting
Enhancing Inter-Regional Prosperity Through Multilateral Framework
On
Migration
“Human Trafficking and Protection of Victims and Refugees”
Myanmar Position on “Human Trafficking and Protection of Victims & Refugees”
Since Myanmar declare its independence in 1948, human trafficking and refugee has been serious issue because of unstable political and economic situation made by military regime. Myanmar faces internal human trafficking and succeed solve 173 cases and imprisoned 234 traffickers in 20101. Myanmar also has 808.075 stateless persons come from Rohingya Clan2 and about 339.200 displaced person3. Besides those two problems, there are lot of our citizen flee abroad. These refugees are very vulnerable to become trafficking victim because there are no refugee camps in the destination country4.
Respond to this case, we have implemented international fundamental framework set by United Nation to combat Human Trafficking, which are Prosecution, Protection, and Prevention5. In prosecution phase, we set several policies by implemented the national laws The Anti-Trafficking in Persons Law 20056. We engage those efforts in association with UNIAP (United Nation Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking)7. The decreasing number of human trafficking cases in Myanmar shows the effectiveness of this program, but the length of punishment for perpetrators of transnational crime is too short, so it does not give chary effect.
As one of a UN member, Myanmar got a responsibility to preserving world peace. Thus, Myanmar contributes to this meeting because Myanmar perceives the impact from human trafficking problem can threaten the human rights of our people. Furthermore, the involvement of Myanmar in this meeting can gives an overview of human trafficking in Southeast Asia, especially in Myanmar. We would also like to inform that we are in transition