DSWD holds training-seminar for human trafficking victims
CALASIAO–The ordeal of victims of human trafficking does not end with their return to their families.
This is what that the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) addressed in the three-day Training on the Psychosocial Recovery, Social and Economic Reintegration for Trafficked Persons held at the Regency Hotel this town from May 23 to 25.
Social workers, health workers, police and legal officers from Region 1 participated in the training, which was aimed at teaching them how to assess traffic cases, handling victims during psychosocial recovery process, and making referrals to concerned government agencies.
Trafficked persons, who are mostly from the poor sector, usually end up as sex workers, forced laborers, slaves or sometimes forced to join in armed conflicts.
The victims, according DSWD Region 1 Technical Assistance Division Chief Anniely J. Ferrer, usually find it difficult to re-integrate when they return home for fear of embarrassment.
“Sometimes, the victims of human trafficking are disowned by their families. Husbands refuse to live with their wives anymore, particularly if their wives have been sexually exploited,” she said.
The family of the victims, particularly if the victim is male, end up poorer than before they were trafficked, she added.
Also introduced during the training was the ‘Referral System for the Recovery and Reintegration of Trafficked Persons,’ which is a network of government agencies and non-government organizations that provides logistics for the monitoring, assessment and prevention of human trafficking as well as the provision of assistance to trafficked persons. (PIA-Pangasinan/RRF)
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