World Vision and Ministry of Home Affairs sign collaboration agreement

Nay Pyi Taw, 16 March 2016-  World Vision Myanmar (WVM) and the Ministry of Home Affairs, Central Body for Suppression of Trafficking in Persons (CBTIP) signed the project agreement to jointly  implement the Myanmar Anti-Trafficking in Persons project to enhance the protection of trafficked victims in Myanmar.

To help reduce the vulnerability to trafficking in Myanmar and to effectively support returned trafficking victims, the Embassy of the United States of America has provided $700,000 USD to World Vision Myanmar to implement an Anti-trafficking project in Myanmar over a period of three years.

According to the Trafficking in Person Report published in July 2015 by the U.S. Department of States, Myanmar has been a Tier 2 Watch list country for four consecutive years. The report further states that Myanmar is a source countryfor forced labour and sex trafficking especially for women and children. A lack of job opportunities in country has forced men, women and children to voluntarily migrate to the bordering countries which increase their vulnerability to being trafficked.  

“Every year we support returnees, reunitingthem with their families and providing reintegration support, including legal support. With the funding support from the U.S. Embassy, and in partnership  with CBTIP, we will continue our effortsto protect victims and will be able to increase our focus on investigations and prosecutions of human trafficking cases,” says Mr. Suresh Bartlett, National Director of World Vision Myanmar.

The purpose of the project is to improve victim-centered investigations and prosecutions of human trafficking cases through training and support to police, judges, prosecutors and case managers and enhance victim protection through the provision of comprehensive victim services.

For more information, please contact:
KhinMyo Thant, Project Manager, World Vision Myanmar, email: KhinMyo_Thant@wvi.org, Phone: (95 9) 43143485

Naw Genevieve, Grant Department Manager, World Vision Myanmar, email: naw_genevieve@wvi.org, Phone: (95 9) 507 9520.