Most notable among the efforts is customized training for migrant women who are
victims of violence, improved dual language service support, and creation of dedicated team
for migrant women in the Dasi Hamkke Center. The City Government has already secured
a land of 33,000m2in Seoul to establish a building dedicated to provide comprehensive
services for migrant women from 2010.
The project represents clear understanding of the new social reality that migrant women
account for a large portion of female victims of violence and that proper infrastructure and
support system need to be established.
3.3 National Assembly
Efforts by the Office of Lawmaker Kim Chun-Jin to establish the ‘Act to Prevent Human
Trafficking’: measures to implement domestic legislation in order to ratify the UN Protocol
to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children.
Only in the second half of 2009, a Lawmaker started preparing the legislation against
human trafficking. In October 2009, the Office of Lawmaker Kim Chun-Jin published a
reference document, ‘Legislative guidelines for the Korean National Assembly to Ratify the
UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and
Children: overseas cases of legislation to prevent human trafficking’.
The Office in November 2009 also launched a motion calling for submission of
ratification of ‘the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime’ and
‘the supplementing Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons,
Especially Women and Children’ which was passed at the National Assembly on February
25, 2010.
- Key outstanding issues: simultaneous motion of the Criminal Act and the Act to Prevent
Human Trafficking (National Coalition)
- A policy discussion was held on May 4, 2010 on legislation of sexual exploitation and
human trafficking, which was organized by the Office of Lawmaker Kim Chun-Jin. The
topics of the discussion included: efficacy of the proposed legislation; the need to
synchronize the definition of human trafficking in the proposed Act to Prevent Human
Trafficking withthat of the UN Protocol so that the cases left out in the blind spot could
be defined as human trafficking and be handled as such; preparation of measures to
support practical investigation, punishment of crime as well as support for the victims;
and the need to display the resolve for enforcement with consistent raids.
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