{"id":42244,"date":"2019-09-14T07:50:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T23:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=42244"},"modified":"2019-09-14T07:53:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T23:53:27","slug":"myanmar-vp-calls-for-public-participation-in-fighting-against-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=42244","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar VP Calls For Public Participation In Fighting Against Human Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NAY PYI TAW, Myanmar, Sept 14 (NNN-MNA) &#8211; Myanmar Vice President, U Henry Van Thio, called for participation of the public, in fighting against human trafficking, when the country marked the seventh anniversary of Myanmar&#8217;s Anti-Trafficking in Persons Day on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vice president said, the government has taken multifaceted approach to combat trafficking in persons, as part of the efforts under the country&#8217;s five-year plan focusing on four areas &#8212; policy and cooperation, prevention, prosecution and protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myanmar enacted the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Law on Sept 13, 2005, and steps were underway to amend the law, in line with the present situation in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to figures from Myanmar&#8217;s Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division, 502 traffickers were charged in connection with 176 cases, while 254 people were victimised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the 2005 Anti-Trafficking in Persons Law, people who smuggle women and children were sentenced to at least 10 years, or up to lifetime sentence or fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assets and property involved in human trafficking cases will be confiscated, in accordance with the Anti-Money Laundering Law.&#8211; NNN-MNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAY PYI TAW, Myanmar, Sept 14 (NNN-MNA) &#8211; Myanmar Vice President, U Henry Van Thio, called for participation of the public, in fighting against human trafficking, when the country marked the seventh anniversary of Myanmar&#8217;s Anti-Trafficking in Persons Day on Friday. The vice president said, the government has taken multifaceted approach to combat trafficking in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":42250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42244"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}