OBMICA Trains Ministry of Interior and Police Officials on Trafficking

As part of the commemoration of World Day against Trafficking in Persons, OBMICA Director Bridget Wooding gave a talk on internal trafficking of women, boys, girls, and adolescents to staff of the Ministry of Interior and Police (MIP), organized by the institution's Office for Gender Equity and Development.

Wooding shared the main findings of the exploratory study on internal trafficking prepared for OBMICA by researcher Tahira Vargas. Participants were able to learn about forms of trafficking such as honorable, servile, or forced marriage, identify the profile of traffickers, and understand the involvement of micro drug-trafficking networks in these dynamics.

"It is vitally important to train public employees in the institutions responsible for combating this scourge and protecting victims of trafficking," Wooding emphasized during her presentation.

The main table of the activity was headed by the Deputy Minister for Naturalization and Migration, Luis Fernandez; Massiel Aquino, head of the Office for Gender Equity and Development; and Aurelia Gonzalez, Director of Migration Affairs.