{"id":3831,"date":"2006-11-17T17:35:16","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T17:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeanlambertmep.org.uk\/?p=3831"},"modified":"2015-04-01T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T17:37:14","slug":"green-mep-calls-for-action-to-combat-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanlambertmep.org.uk\/2006\/11\/17\/green-mep-calls-for-action-to-combat-human-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Green MEP Calls For Action To Combat Human Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The British Government\u2019s attitude towards victims of trafficking is deeply regrettable\u2019, UK Green MEP, Jean Lambert, told the European Parliament when they voted to adopt a wide ranging report feeding into the EU Commission\u2019s action plan to end human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Jean, who is London\u2019s Green MEP, has continued to campaign for the rights of victims of trafficking and welcomed today\u2019s comprehensive report which looks at all dimensions of trafficking, not just that of sexual exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf those countries signed up to the EU\u2019s initiative for short term residents permits, designed with vicitims of trafficking in mind, only 2 have put this into practice and only 6 have started official proceedings. The EU Commission now has no alternative but to take action against those failing. Embarrasingly though this can not include the British Government as they have not even agreed to the initiative.\u201c Jean commented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe British Government continue to see victims of trafficking as illegal immigrants, not victims of crime, and treat them as such.\u00a0 Until this attitude changes the pilot projects they are running offering support to victims, while welcome, simply wont have the required impact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is vital that we end and \/ or disrupt the slave like conditions many victims of trafficking find themselves in. Today\u2019s report takes us one step closer to achieving that goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The British Government\u2019s attitude towards victims of trafficking is deeply regrettable\u2019, UK Green MEP, Jean Lambert, told the European Parliament when they voted to adopt a wide ranging report feeding into the EU Commission\u2019s action plan to end human trafficking. 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