26 October 2010
Malaysian National News Agency (Bangkok) – Five Vietnamese children, along with Asian diplomats, talked about the state of child trafficking, prevention, and combat strategies at the third Mekong Youth Forum on Human Trafficking and Migration which is co-sponsored by the UN Inter-agency Project on Human Trafficking. Delegates, from Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand, focused on combat strategy through exchanges in information, experience, and input from child victims. The children maintain that culturally focused information programs are both effective and demanded by the region’s children. The forum wants to institutionalize the input of child victims in local, national, and regional development of anti-trafficking efforts. The forum’s conclusions will be given to the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Trafficking’s meeting.
Source:
(Reliability: 8/10)
Comment: (Source Reliability: No issues of bias or inaccuracy in this source. The source does provide a good general explanation of the objectives and focus of the meeting. However, the source does not state examples of the types of strategies and experiences exchanged by diplomats. Thus, a difficulty exists in determining if the exchange of information is based off the September Asia-Pacific conference. Moreover, no motivation is stated by participants for attendance other than the need for improved anti-trafficking tactics. Thus, a difficulty exists in determining if the Asia-Pacific conference motivated attendance by participants to this conference.)
Comment: As stated in the source reliability, it is difficult to determine if the information exchange and the motivation for attendance/organization was a consequence of the September Asia-Pacific conference. However, one can not discount the possibility that the Asia-Pacific conference was not successful in some measure in organizing or providing information for exchange in this conference. One of the recommendations of the Asia-Pacific conference was the inclusion and increase of social education programs for migrants. While this particular conference deals with child trafficking, one of the focuses of the conference was over education on trafficking to children and villages. Thus, the possibility exists that the Asia-Pacific conference was successful at influencing the discussion at this particular conference. However, because of the lack of detail about participants, motivation, and information exchanged, one can not confidently state that the Asia-Pacific conference did or did not motivate the direction of this particular conference.
The State of Child Trafficking in Cambodia (Source: France 24 English News/You Tube-January 12, 2009)
Comment: (Source Reliability: No issues of bias or inaccuracy in this source. The source does provide a good general explanation of the objectives and focus of the meeting. However, the source does not state examples of the types of strategies and experiences exchanged by diplomats. Thus, a difficulty exists in determining if the exchange of information is based off the September Asia-Pacific conference. Moreover, no motivation is stated by participants for attendance other than the need for improved anti-trafficking tactics. Thus, a difficulty exists in determining if the Asia-Pacific conference motivated attendance by participants to this conference.)
Comment: As stated in the source reliability, it is difficult to determine if the information exchange and the motivation for attendance/organization was a consequence of the September Asia-Pacific conference. However, one can not discount the possibility that the Asia-Pacific conference was not successful in some measure in organizing or providing information for exchange in this conference. One of the recommendations of the Asia-Pacific conference was the inclusion and increase of social education programs for migrants. While this particular conference deals with child trafficking, one of the focuses of the conference was over education on trafficking to children and villages. Thus, the possibility exists that the Asia-Pacific conference was successful at influencing the discussion at this particular conference. However, because of the lack of detail about participants, motivation, and information exchanged, one can not confidently state that the Asia-Pacific conference did or did not motivate the direction of this particular conference.
The State of Child Trafficking in Cambodia (Source: France 24 English News/You Tube-January 12, 2009)
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