BARBADOS – Barbados is seeking to develop a protocol to assist victims of human trafficking in the event that it occurs here.
To this end, the Bureau of Gender Affairs and the Business and Professional Women’s Club will host a one-day workshop this Friday, January 18, at UN House, Hastings, Christ Church, beginning at 9:00 a.m.
Professor Barbara Moynihan from Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, will speak on developing protocols for human trafficking, while the Acting Director of the Bureau, John Hollingsworth, will proffer reasons for the development of such a protocol for Barbados.
Approximately 30 stakeholders from several organizations, including the Ministries of Health and Labor, Immigration and Customs Departments, local women and men’s groups, the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP) and the Barbados Bar Association have been invited to participate in the seminar.
Human trafficking involves the recruitment, movement or harboring of a person by means of deception, coercion and or force in order to disadvantage that individual through sexual exploitation, forced labor, servitude, slavery and or slavery-like conditions.
It is said to be the third most profitable illegal industry next to arms and narcotics trade, totaling some US $8 billion.
