Koforidua, March 1, GNA - Twenty participants drawn from identified groups on Tuesday ended a two-day referral system drafting technical workshop on Human Trafficking in Koforidua. The participants came from the Attorney General's Department, Labour Department, Department of Social Welfare, Legal Resources Centre, Challenging Height and Rescue Foundation. The workshop, which was jointly organized by the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs (MOWAC) and the International Organization for Migrati= on (IOM), aimed to develop a referral system for victim protection programme o= n Human Trafficking.

Mr Clarke Noyoru of the Human Trafficking Secretariat of the MOWAC, said for about four years now, MOWAC had collaborated with stakeholders, both implementers and development partners, to address the phenomenon of Human Trafficking. He said when it came to referral system MOWAC had not done much, addin= g that it was against that background that the workshop was being organized for Human Traffic Stakeholders to come out with a comprehensive draft system. Mr Eric Peasah, of the IOM, said when people who were trafficked were rescued, problems of how to shelter them for the time being arose Topics discussed included 93What" and 93How" of a Referral Syst= em, Community Education, Awareness Creation, Rescue, Rehabilitate, Reunificatio= n and Reintegration, Arrest and Prosecution.