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Mozambique cooperates with IOM to curb human trafficking

Xinhua, March 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Mozambican Attorney General's office is from Tuesday holding a seminar in the capital Maputo on the human trafficking, saying that it is cooperating with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to fight human trafficking along the main borders.

The seminar organized by the IOM, is aimed at debating questions related to the protection of all the victims of human in the Southern African country.

The Deputy Attorney General Amabelia Chuquela said that the regions along the border are the main vulnerable areas to human trafficking.

"We have started an intense work in coordination with South Africa along the Ressano Garcia border, and there are also similar works in the provinces that share border with Zimbabwe because traffickers are always changing the way they operate and the borders," said Chuquela.

According to Chuquela, Mozambique will soon initiate works with Swaziland, another country that Mozambique shares border with, because it could also mean an option to the traffickers.

Mozambique has already an established legal framework to fight human trafficking but challenges persist in fighting the crime.

"It's not enough to act on prevention or reaction because we are not yet fighting the cause, and one of the problems is related to social character, where we understand that the responsible entities must do an in-depth work to reduce vulnerability of the people," said Chuquela.

In the understanding of the general attorney office, the generation of jobs to give people an income would be one of the solutions to the problem.

The most common ends for trafficking of humans in Mozambique is extraction of human parts, sexual exploitation and forced labor, targeting women and children the most.

The IOM in Mozambique said it is important that all stakeholders cooperate in order to fight human trafficking otherwise it will be harder to bring this issue down.

Human trafficking is a big problem in the former Portuguese colony. According to UNICEF office in Maputo, several hundred people, including women and children, are trafficked into South Africa daily.

UNICEF has been calling for vigilance in the fight against the crime. The traffickers are Mozambicans and South Africans. Endit