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 Migration (IOM), aimed to develop a referral system for victim protection programme on 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, adding 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 “What” and “How” of a Referral System, Community Education, Awareness Creation, Rescue, Rehabilitate, Reunification and Reintegration, Arrest and Prosecution.