❙Congratulatory Speech❙ Seoul International Conference against Human Trafficking in Migrant Women Greetings to all the participants of the Seoul International Conference against Human Trafficking in Migrant Women. I am Jin-Young, Lawmaker of Seoul Yong-San District. I would like to congratulate on the hosting of the Seoul International Conference against Human Trafficking in Migrant Women and to applaud Chairperson Hyun Byung-Chul, Secretary-General Kim Ok-Shin and other members of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea who always work hard for a more democratic society by protecting and promoting fundamental inviolable human rights of each individual and who have done a great job preparing for the conference. Also, I would like extend my warm gratitude to today’s key note speaker Ms. Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, the UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking of Persons and all the other experts from home and abroad for your presence today. The world is entering into a multicultural age with ever-increasing transnational exchange of people. Koreais not an exception with increasing number of foreign residents. Due to weak legal and institutional system for such migrants, there are a large number of human rights violations around the world –one of which is human trafficking of the relatively weak, the women. The method of crime has become more sophisticated and complex as it involves new medium such as the internet, and starts to show characteristics of large-scale organized crime involving both domestic and international network. In Korea, international marriage and entertainer’s visa are often used as a tool for human trafficking thereby violating human rights of a large number of migrant women. I hope this conference can contribute finding ways to eradicate human trafficking on migrant women and to protect the victims by identifying cooperative measures between NGO, governments and national human rights agencies.