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WORLD NEWS Monday 11 July 2022

UNODC initiative regarding human trafficking for judiciary entities

ORANJESTAD – It is essen- and the Caribbean, with such, the presentations
tial for the community to regional and national ac- were multidisciplinary, fo-
be aware of the difference tions. Curaçao and Aruba cused on the victim in or-
between human traffick- form part of this initiative. der to identify, prevent and
ing and human smuggling. The general goal is to ele- pursue cases of human
The first is a crime against vate the way in which Jus- trafficking.
the human rights of a per- tice in the specific coun-
son, and the second is a tries responds to human To achieve this, TRACK4TIP
crime against a country or trafficking and the flow of proposed the implemen-
state. And for the National migration. tation of seven main ob-
Coordinator againsta hu- Lourdes Gutiérrez from jectives organized under
man trafficking, Jeanette Panama and Lissette Reyes three specific goals which
Richardson Baars, it is cru- from the Dominican Repub- together make it easier for
cial for the press to also lic are UNODC executives, the countries to fortify the
understand the difference who guide the presenta- way in which their judicial
– which is big. tions in collaboration with entities respond in cases
the Centre for Coordina- of human trafficking. It is
This was also the reason tion on Human Trafficking focused on Venezuelans, crime, and often goes in work in construction with-
why the press was included and Smuggling, and HIAS, who are the biggest mi- combination with the other out paying wages, without
in the information cycle on Hebrew Immigrant Aid So- grant group in these coun- two, Reyes explained. benefits and without rest.
human trafficking which ciety which is also active in tries, which also include This is something that au-
UNODC – United Nations Aruba to provide support Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Smuggling can become thorities noticed is taking
Office on Drugs and Crime particularly to Venezuelan Brazil, Trinidad & Tobago, trafficking place in Aruba, especially
– held in Aruba. It regards migrants and refugees. and the Dominican Repub- Jeannette Baars Richard- among male undocument-
the TRACK4TIP which stands lic. son says that one has to re- ed migrants. The danger for
for ‘transforming alerts into Members of the Police alized that there exists also women and female teen-
criminal justice responses to Force, the intelligence unit Even though the presenta- the reality of undocument- agers is forced prostitution.
combat trafficking in per- in Human Trafficking (TIP), tion given to journalists was ed migrants who pay to
sons within migration flows’. the investigative unit of TIP, more general, the organiz- enter our country illegally. But another phenomenon
the victim assistance office, ers felt that it is essential They partake in smuggling, which was noticed also in
TRACK4TIP is a three-year the Department of Social to understand the role of and this is a crime against Aruba is how families start
initiative by UNODC with Affairs, Interpol and the Na- the press in this big prob- Aruba. Put there is a big participating in the traffick-
support of the Office for tional Bureau of Counter- lem, particularly the way danger that the people ing of youth, even children,
Monitoring and Combating terrorism all participate in in which the press deals who use a smuggler can to bring in money. Often
Human Trafficking of the the three day training, dur- with victims. This is because and do become victims they go into drug sales
U.S. State Department. The ing which they did analy- many times the victims are of human trafficking, par- or prostitution. Accord-
project is directed to eight sis and practical exercises exposed in the press, with- ticularly because like the ing to Baars-Richardson,
countries in South America based on real cases. As out being aware of their human trafficking business, poverty plays a big role.
trauma and vulnerability, there are more actors in- Aside from families victim-
while this can be an ob- volved. izing their children, young
stacle for them to help au- people can also become
thorities pursue those trying The knowledge that a per- a victim to others, through
to traffic them. son entered Aruba illegally contacts on social media,
can easily be used to force where so-called ‘groom-
The life of a human traffick- them to do work that can ers’ can guide them to
ing victim, which is modern be qualified as abuse. For produce money through
slavery, is in danger – for example make them go trafficking.q
their freedom when they
are forced to do work or
acts against their human
rights, and they also lack
safety because they are in
the hands of people who
make sure they aren’t safe
in order to keep dominat-
ing them. And modern slav-
ery is one of the most lucra-
tive businesses currently.
Next to drug and weapons
trafficking, human traffick-
ing is the biggest organized