What are the critical aspects the SAARC region should focus in a collaborative manner?
Prof. Hossain: Any meaningful collaborative effort among South Asian countries requires trust among the states. When it concerns victims of cross border trafficking, South Asian countries should not blame each other. Rather they should engage in constructive dialogue to undertake more effective prevention, rescue, prosecution and repatriation of the victims. Constructive dialogue between South Asian countries will help them not only to see the problem of trafficking from the standpoint of a narrow national interest but to view it from a humanitarian perspective which in turn will automatically expand the horizon of collaboration in exchanging and sharing information, rescue operation, investigation, prosecution, repatriation and other related areas of anti-human trafficking. UNODC: Finally, please, give us your views about the training that is being organized in New Delhi for law enforcement officers Prof. Hossain: Human trafficking takes place both within the border and beyond borders
