{"id":119892,"date":"2021-04-23T16:28:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T08:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119892"},"modified":"2021-04-23T16:28:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T08:28:52","slug":"asean-gets-ready-to-combat-human-trafficking-in-post-covid-19-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119892","title":{"rendered":"Asean Gets Ready To Combat Human Trafficking In Post Covid-19 Period\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>JAKARTA, April 23 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Security and enforcement agencies in ASEAN\u00a0need to be ready to face evolving trends in transnational criminal activities during the post-COVID-19 period, especially in the fight against human trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chairman of ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational&nbsp; Crime (SOMTC), Awang Sufian Sabtu said&nbsp;ASEAN&nbsp;will continue to give its steadfast support to both regional and&nbsp; international efforts to combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;SOMTC needs to adopt the learnings and experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic into future plans and work programmes, such as the ASEAN-Australia Counter-Trafficking Work Plan 2020-2023 and the SOMTC Work Programme which is currently being reviewed under Brunei Darussalam\u2019s Chairmanship of SOMTC,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Awang Suffian said this in his&nbsp;closing remarks at the ASEAN SOMTC Workshop Consultation on the ASEAN Australia Counter-Trafficking Work Plan 2020-2023.&nbsp;The session was held virtually at the International Convention Centre, Berakas, Brunei on last Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This consultation workshop is a platform for ASEAN Member States to discuss initiatives planned under the ASEAN-Australia Counter-Trafficking Work Plan 2020-2023 that is aimed to support the implementation of the ASEAN Convention Against Trafficking in Persons.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA, April 23 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Security and enforcement agencies in ASEAN\u00a0need to be ready to face evolving trends in transnational criminal activities during the post-COVID-19 period, especially in the fight against human trafficking. Chairman of ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational&nbsp; Crime (SOMTC), Awang Sufian Sabtu said&nbsp;ASEAN&nbsp;will continue to give its steadfast support to both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":86822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119892"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}