Myanmar draws five-year plan on eliminating human trade

Myanmar is drafting a national- level five-year plan of eliminating human trade to step up combating the crime, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Saturday.

The plan covers five sectors -- cooperation through the policy, prevention, taking action, protection of the victims and capacity building, the report quoted the Central Committee for Prevention of Trafficking in Persons as saying.

According to the committee, Myanmar exposed 60 human trade cases in 2006, rescuing 200 victims and arresting 299 human traffickers.

Myanmar joined in March 2004 the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women.

The country also signed a memorandum of understanding of six- member countries of Greater Mekong Subregion against trafficking in persons in October 2004.

Myanmar passed domestically the Law on Prevention of Trafficking in Persons in September 2005.

Source: Xinhua