A training Workshop on Strategies for Combating Human Trafficking, taken place for 5 days from 31 May to 4 June, 2010  in Pailin province, northwestern part of the country, 371 km from Phnom Penh, organized by Somaly Mam Foundation (SMF) and the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on human trafficking (UNIAP).

The workshop is aimed to raise awareness and present various strategies among cross-border provincial law enforcement participants about how to legally react and to prevent the cause and effect of human trafficking facing cross-border crimes.

Invited to be the guest speakers were Her Excellency San Arun, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs; Her Excellency Ith Yuth, Deputy Governor of Pailin province; Her Excellency Pov Sok, Member of Provincial Council; Somaly Mam, AFESIP Cambodia President and Founder and President of Somaly Mam Foundation, Lim Tith, UNIAP Program Coordinator.

There were 60 provincial government participants attended the workshop among those were staff from various provincial departments, justice police officials, provincial military police and district authorities. The lecturers were high government officials from ministries of Women’s Affairs; Tourism; Education, Youth and Sports; Interior; Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation; Lim Tith, representative from UNIAP and Sok Sam Oeurn, Executive Director of the Cambodian Defenders Projects (CDP). Also presented to the audience were Uong Chheng, AFESIP Health Department Manager about AFESIP activities and Sina Vann, Team Leader of SMF’s Voices for Change about her past trauma in the brothels.

The training workshop was funded by Somaly Mam Foundation (SMF),

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