AG meets US Embassy officials on human trafficking

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie has met with a del­e­ga­tion from the Unit­ed States Em­bassy to dis­cuss hu­man traf­fick­ing and op­por­tu­ni­ties for con­tin­ued col­lab­o­ra­tion to com­bat the crime in Trinidad and To­ba­go and the wider Caribbean.

The meet­ing fo­cused on chal­lenges as­so­ci­at­ed with traf­fick­ing in per­sons, in­clud­ing the ex­ploita­tion of vul­ner­a­ble in­di­vid­u­als, the move­ment of vic­tims across bor­ders and links be­tween hu­man traf­fick­ing and transna­tion­al or­gan­ised crime.

Full coverageAttorney General John Jeremie Meets US Delegation on Human Trafficking2 reports

Dis­cus­sions al­so ad­dressed the need to strength­en sys­tems for iden­ti­fy­ing and pro­tect­ing vic­tims, im­prove in­ves­ti­ga­tions and pros­e­cu­tions, and tack­le the so­cial and eco­nom­ic vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties that leave peo­ple ex­posed to ex­ploita­tion.