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| EU-UNDP-UNICEF meeting with Belarusian Officials (Source: UNDP Belarus) |
United Nations Development Programme (Minsk) - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) of Belarus, the EU, and UNICEF, began the funding for the training of 200 Belarusian social protection specialists in tactics aimed at preventing and addressing the social effects of human trafficking for victims in Belarus. The training, conducted by the Belarusian Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Labor and Social Prevention, and numerous Baltic NGOs and social experts, deals in issues of preventing human trafficking, giving psychological aid to victims, and ethical implications in relief work. The trainees come from all of Belarus’ regions and will return to their respective regions to implement their training. The aim of the training is to help the Belarusian government in deterring human trafficking and aid its victims by improving regional success and national aggregate success rate towards the 2 goals.
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Comment: (Source Reliability: The source presents no issues of bias or inaccuracy. However, no detail is provided into the forces behind the Belarusian need for social service training, reforms, and funding.)
Comment: As of 2009, Belarus has made significant legal and policy developments to combat human trafficking. Prior to and during 2009, Belarus was considered to by the UN to be dangerously close to becoming an international hub for trafficking (fulfilling the roles of source, destination, and transit nations all at once). Specifically, Belarus has signed and ratified the UN's 2000 Palermo Protocol Against Transnational Organized Crime and has begun to codify anti-trafficking laws. The acceptance of UN and EU assistance in trafficking social services is likely to be an extension of the government's agenda to curb the growth of trafficking from and to Belarus.
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Comment: (Source Reliability: The source presents no issues of bias or inaccuracy. However, no detail is provided into the forces behind the Belarusian need for social service training, reforms, and funding.)
Comment: As of 2009, Belarus has made significant legal and policy developments to combat human trafficking. Prior to and during 2009, Belarus was considered to by the UN to be dangerously close to becoming an international hub for trafficking (fulfilling the roles of source, destination, and transit nations all at once). Specifically, Belarus has signed and ratified the UN's 2000 Palermo Protocol Against Transnational Organized Crime and has begun to codify anti-trafficking laws. The acceptance of UN and EU assistance in trafficking social services is likely to be an extension of the government's agenda to curb the growth of trafficking from and to Belarus.
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