The meeting was attended by delegates from the National COMMIT Taskforces of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and China as well as representatives from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as Secretary of the COMMIT Process, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the ASEAN-Australia Counter Trafficking Program (ASEAN-ACT) and the Bali Process.
At the meeting, the Vietnamese delegation chaired a discussion on transnational referral mechanisms.
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| Overview of the meeting. |
Accordingly, Senior Colonel Nguyen Minh Hieu informed delegates of the outcomes of the consultation workshop on Minimum Standard 1: Victim identification of the transnational referral mechanisms hosted by the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam in August 2024, as well as presented a draft list of the guidelines on criteria for identifying victims of techn-facilitated abuse who are coerced to commit crime.
At the meeting, delegates from all participating countries and organizations highly agreed on the need to draft a list of the guidelines on criteria for identifying victims of tech-facilitated abuse, especially when the region has not yet reached consensus on the criteria.
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| Vietnam National COMMIT Task Force delegation attend the meeting. |
Speaking at the meeting, the UNDP representative highly appreciated Vietnam's proactive role in drafting the list of guidelines, and committed to supporting the drafting of the document so as to submit it to the 2025 Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) Ministerial Meeting against trafficking in persons for consideration.
Within the framework of the meeting, delegates also discussed various important issues such as new trends of human trafficking in the region and the world, the results of implementing the 2015 GMS cooperation plan, the sustainability of the COMMIT Process and the preparation for the GMS Ministerial Meeting against trafficking in persons next year.