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TIMOR-LESTE - IOM Completes Counter Trafficking Training for Front Line Law Enforcement - IOM and the Timorese National Police (PNTL) Training Centre yesterday hosted a final workshop and closing ceremony for front line law enforcement officers designed to raise awareness of human trafficking and identify ways to combat it in Timor-Leste.
Police officers from Ermera district attended the event, which covered a range of topics, including definitions of human trafficking, national legal frameworks, international cooperation in investigations and prosecutions, and the response of law enforcement agencies.
The workshop was also attended by representatives from the American Embassy in Dili, Director of the PNTL Police Training Centre Carlos Almeida Sousa Jeronimo, Deputy UNPOL Police Commissioner Faheem Khan, and IOM Chief of Mission Norberto Celestino.
The event marked the last nationwide training under the project: Halt Exploitation, Learn to Prosecute, Phase III (HELP III), funded by the United States Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.
Over the past year, IOM has organized 13 similar trainings for a total of 377 officers from every district and sub-district in Timor-Leste. Additional future training may include workshops on criminal investigative techniques and specialized courses for members of the Migration Service.
Timor-Leste has been identified as a destination country for victims of trafficking and may also become a source country. People trafficked to Timor-Leste have included victims from Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, China and the Philippines.
Some were subjected to forced labour aboard fishing vessels. Others were coerced into commercial sex work in the capital, Dili. Many victims thought that they could earn large salaries in Timor-Leste’s US dollar-based economy.
There is also evidence that trafficking takes place inside the country with women and children trafficked from the countryside to the towns for forced labour or sexual exploitation. Rescued victims report overwork, physical and sexual abuse, and non-payment or under-payment for their work.
Since 2007, the IOM Timor-Leste Counter Trafficking Unit has organized trainings for law enforcement agencies, the media and other stakeholders and has provided technical support to the Inter Agency Counter Trafficking Working Group. It has also implemented nationwide public information campaigns to raise awareness of human trafficking.
For more information, please contact Katharine Bryant at IOM Dili. Tel. +670 7230254, Email: kbryant@iom.int or Dejan Potpara, Tel. +670 723 0445, Email: dpotpara@iom.int
International Organization for Migration
Dili, Timor-Leste
kbryant@iom.int
+670 7230254
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TIMOR-LESTE - IOM Completes Counter Trafficking Training for Front Line Law Enforcement - IOM and the Timorese National Police (PNTL) Training Centre yesterday hosted a final workshop and closing ceremony for front line law enforcement officers designed to raise awareness of human trafficking and identify ways to combat it in Timor-Leste.
Police officers from Ermera district attended the event, which covered a range of topics, including definitions of human trafficking, national legal frameworks, international cooperation in investigations and prosecutions, and the response of law enforcement agencies.
The workshop was also attended by representatives from the American Embassy in Dili, Director of the PNTL Police Training Centre Carlos Almeida Sousa Jeronimo, Deputy UNPOL Police Commissioner Faheem Khan, and IOM Chief of Mission Norberto Celestino.
The event marked the last nationwide training under the project: Halt Exploitation, Learn to Prosecute, Phase III (HELP III), funded by the United States Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.
Over the past year, IOM has organized 13 similar trainings for a total of 377 officers from every district and sub-district in Timor-Leste. Additional future training may include workshops on criminal investigative techniques and specialized courses for members of the Migration Service.
Timor-Leste has been identified as a destination country for victims of trafficking and may also become a source country. People trafficked to Timor-Leste have included victims from Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, China and the Philippines.
Some were subjected to forced labour aboard fishing vessels. Others were coerced into commercial sex work in the capital, Dili. Many victims thought that they could earn large salaries in Timor-Leste’s US dollar-based economy.
There is also evidence that trafficking takes place inside the country with women and children trafficked from the countryside to the towns for forced labour or sexual exploitation. Rescued victims report overwork, physical and sexual abuse, and non-payment or under-payment for their work.
Since 2007, the IOM Timor-Leste Counter Trafficking Unit has organized trainings for law enforcement agencies, the media and other stakeholders and has provided technical support to the Inter Agency Counter Trafficking Working Group. It has also implemented nationwide public information campaigns to raise awareness of human trafficking.
For more information, please contact Katharine Bryant at IOM Dili. Tel. +670 7230254, Email: kbryant@iom.int or Dejan Potpara, Tel. +670 723 0445, Email: dpotpara@iom.int
International Organization for Migration
Dili, Timor-Leste
kbryant@iom.int
+670 7230254
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