Prime Minister Evelyn Wever-Croes and CMMA Director Jeanette Baars announced a significant change in the Penal Code in June 2023, leading to a surge in convictions for human trafficking and related offenses.
Prime Minister and CMMA Director Discuss ‘No Cay Den Trampa’ Campaign – Combating Human Trafficking in Aruba. During a press conference, highlighting its impact on the community.
UNODC Practical Workshop to identify and investigate Trafficking in Persons in Aruba. Participants are from the Aruba Police Force, Royal Dutch Military Police, Customs Department, Immigration Department and Migrant Control Department. Presentations were made by Mr. Romulus Ungureanu, International law enforcement advisor for UNODC, and Ms. Lisette Reyes, UNODC Trafficking in Persons Project Officer for the Caribbean.
CMMA’s ‘No Cay Den Trampa’ campaign raises awareness about online dangers for youth. Protecting our children from human trafficking
Podcast ‘Buckle Up’ August 16, 2023 News Podcast ‘Buckle Up’ August 16, 2023 On August 15th, 2023, CMMA was invited to participate in the podcast
PHILIPSBURG:— The Government of Sint Maarten is taking its Tier III Trafficking in Persons ranking, received from the United States Department of State, in June 2023, seriously. Based on the current Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) of 2019, enacted by all the countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the stage for instrumenting a collaborative effort in combatting the crimes of human trafficking and human smuggling on each territory is organized.
On June 1st 2023 the representatives of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Coordination Center on Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling Aruba (CMMA) presented the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to strengthen identification, screening, protection, assistance, return and reintegration of victims of Human Trafficking.
PHILIPSBURG:— The Government of Sint Maarten is taking its Tier III Trafficking in Persons ranking, received from the United States Department of State, in June 2023, seriously. Based on the current Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) of 2019, enacted by all the countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the stage for instrumenting a collaborative effort in combatting the crimes of human trafficking and human smuggling on each territory is organized.
Based on the cooperation agreement in the Kingdom MOU, CMMA was invited by the government of Sint Maarten to train six groups of different governmental departments on the basics of human trafficking and migrant smuggling.
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