Malawi is in the process of formulating anti-human trafficking laws to reduce cases of human trafficking among girls, women and children in the country, according to Peter Nsefula, the director of Women Development in the Ministry Women and Child Development, here on Tuesday.
Nsefula told APA in Lilongwe during an interview that currently the country, unlike other countries in the southern African region, has no laws to curb the malpractice of human trafficking, especially among the vulnerable groups.
"We are currently working together with the Malawi Law Commission (MLC) and other stakeholders to come up with a law that would prosecute all perpetrators of human trafficking," he said.
Nsefula noted that it was disappointing to learn that traffickers come as far as the USA, the United Kingdom, Europe and South Africa to deceive young women that they would give them good employment only to turn them into prostitutes once they take them abroad.
He added that human trafficking was also rampant locally mainly among school going children who are trafficked to work in tea and tobacco estates of the country by estate farmers.
As government, he said, we will make sure that human trafficking is reduced through the forthcoming new law.
Tuesday 21 October 2008
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