Locals call for more efforts to eradicate Human Trafficking

Local association Good Shepherd Sisters (GSS) called on women’s organisations, community associations, ordinary citizens, government officials and policy makers in Macau to join the fight against human trafficking.
The advisory board of the association met this weekend to mark the fifth annual Human Trafficking Awareness Day, celebrated today, and to discuss further initiatives to raise awareness on human trafficking in the territory.
“Macau is believed to be a destination for the trafficking of women and girls from the Chinese mainland, Mongolia, Russia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, and Central Asia, for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation,” the association said.
Over the past years GSS has been holding seminars, some in collaboration with government bodies and has produced a booklet – “the first of its kind” – with anti-trafficking posters designed by students, which was distributed to all secondary schools, along with further talks and volunteer initiatives, according to a press release.
Recently the association also ran advertisements inside local buses about  trafficking of children. The Catholic association has further plans to engage in dialogue with “major corporations in the hospitality industry for enhanced educational purposes in order to help stop human trafficking”.