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Anti-Trafficking in Persons Seminar Held in Beijing, China

The UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (UNIAP) China Office organised an anti-trafficking seminar which was held on 12 April 2007 in Beijing. Concerned leaders and experts from the Criminal Law Office of the Law Working Committee of the National People's Congress, the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Public Security and the office of the National Women’s and Children’s Working Committee under the State Council attended the seminar. Topics for discussion included: China’s National anti-trafficking Plan Action (NPA), the international and domestic definition of anti-trafficking, the main strategies of UNIAP’s third phase and the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative on Trafficking (COMMIT) as well as issues regarding the Inter-Ministerial Meeting (IMM) and the Senior Officials Meeting (SOM), they will be held in December of this year.

The attendees enthusiastically discussed the aforementioned topics, exchanged ideas and reached a consensus on several of the above mentioned key ideas. It was a fruitful meeting and after the meeting every party said that they would actively carry out their own tasks. They expressed that the IMM/SOM will be successfully held in Beijing.

Adapted from: http://uniap.law.pku.edu.cn