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December 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Petra Bosma Kooman

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Do you want to take this, Edwin?

December 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Petra Bosma Kooman

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  There is a piece of research that was not conducted by IJM but that did affirm what we have encountered, which is that children, especially in the slave labour industry in South Asia, are often recruited in family units. Their parents are recruited, and as a result, because child

December 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Petra Bosma Kooman

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We'd agree with Ms. Kennedy. In addition to a supply chain policy or legislation, governments—and, as a result, police forces—remain the only entity with coercive power. They are the only entity that can actually restrain a perpetrator, a trafficker who exploits children, in the

December 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Petra Bosma Kooman

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I would add a note as well, MP Fragiskatos, that one thing we do see is that laws are normative, and that when laws are applied consistently and evenly across the strata of rich and poor, the haves and have-nots, laws do have the ability to transform a society. I notice that a

December 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Petra Bosma Kooman

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's self-policed. We no longer text and drive.

December 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Petra Bosma Kooman

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think there are two answers to your question. The first one is IJM's area of expertise, which is that when laws are in force, they create a deterrent effect. You don't need to hold accountable every single individual who exploits children on either side of the screen; you jus

December 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Petra Bosma Kooman

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'll give you a bit of background. IJM has worked in the Philippines for several years. We've traditionally worked in traditional sex-trafficking cases, typically the exploitation of minors and trafficked women in commercial sex establishments. We found there was a great deterr

December 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Petra Bosma Kooman

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Wonderful. Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the subcommittee. Throughout the developing world, fear of violence is part of everyday life for the poor. In fact, in developing and middle-income countries, poor people often name violence as their greatest fear or main problem.

December 7th, 2017Committee meeting

Petra Bosma Kooman