• Announcement 2 • Cooperation Measures to Prevent Human Trafficking: Demand Oriented Approach Young-Sook CHO, Chief (International Coalition, Korean Women’s Association United) 1. Comprehensive policy for freedom of movement and for prevention of human trafficking and modern-day slavery Increasing number of people migrate over the national border looking for a better life and a better job away from regional conflict, natural disaster, systematic economic crisis and poverty. The scale of the migration exceeds that of the capital and labor movement of the 90s, and it has become a social phenomenon of the 21st century where people of hybrid race and culture express themselves not with homeland but with ‘homepage’. As the experiences of the past decades tell us, migration occurred along with the issue of human trafficking and modern-day slavery. With the introduction of 2000 Palermo Protocol, the international society along with the UN has called for ‘3P’ – prosecution of crimes of human trafficking, protection of victimsand prevention of human trafficking. Therefore, many countries in Asia including Korea introduced anti-human trafficking legislation, policies and other measures to protect the victims and prevent the crime. However, human trafficking is not a simple problem to be solved or prevented. Even worse, many policies introduced to prevent harm from human trafficking backfired to violate human rights and free will of migrants. For example, the visa control policy adopted by the Korean government to prevent human trafficking led to restriction on legal migration. This caused human traffickers to become more clandestine and operate underground, making identification and protection of victims even more difficult. While the trend for freedom of migration and the trend requesting punishment on human Cooperation Measures to Prevent Human Trafficking: Demand Oriented Approach ❙ 97