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. International Standards on Human Trafficking: Implementation Strategy of Korea ❙ 41

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