‘Tribunal can speed up trials against human traffickers’

The government needs to establish a separate tribunal for speeding up trials to combat human trafficking.

Speakers said at a programme organised to mark the ‘World Day against Trafficking in Persons’ in the capital’s Brac center Inn today.

The human trafficking situation in Bangladesh has not improved as very few cases are disposed of by courts, they said.

“The government should take initiatives to identify the flaws and correct them,” National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Kazi Reazul Hoque said at the programme titled ‘Situation Analysis of Human Trafficking and Irregular Migration’.

Talking at the programme, Additional Secretary of Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Javed Ahmed said work is going on through various government initiatives to track down human traffickers.