By NNN-LK News
Colombo : A new biometric system will be introduced by the Government as a mean of combating illegal migration and the amendments would be made to the Foreign Employment Act to facilitate this move.
The Ministry of Child Development and Women’s Empowerment in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) launched a consultation on December 13, to bring together stakeholders to share information and collaborate more closely on interventions of human trafficking, smuggling, transnational crime and exploitation.
“Human trafficking is not a large scale problem in Sri Lanka compared to other South Asian countries,” the Media Secretary to the Ministry of Child Development and Woman’s Empowerment Indrani Sugathadasa said.
“Some foreign employment agencies send women as housemaids and when they arrive in those countries they find things different to what they were promised by the agencies,” she added.
Elaborating on human smuggling and human trafficking, Parakrama Fernando, Assistant Controller Immigration and Emigration Department said in the case of human smuggling the person knows his destination, how his documents were forged and all other details. In contrast, in human trafficking the victim has no knowledge that he/she was being trafficked.