Participants at workshop on human trafficking have called for the adoption of a well-coordinated collaborative approach by security agencies and other stakeholders to effectively tackle human trafficking and irregular migration from and through Ghana.
They said such approach would ensure that no single combating agency would assume to be best placed to manage the menace and that there would be mutual partnership in discharge of their duties.
This was contained in a communiqué issued in Accra on Friday, at the end of a four-day collaborative workshop by Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs and International Organization for Migration.
It was aimed at building capacity and to raise awareness to combat human trafficking and irregular migration from and through Ghana, which the stakeholders said had assumed an alarming dimension.
The communiqué said the lack of collaboration among the agencies made them to be reluctant in the performance of their duties in that area and had made the practice to continue to blossom.
It said even though agencies and laws to combat the practice existed, personnel especially the police, manning such agencies were ignorant of the dictates of the human trafficking act, a situation which made them deficient in the enforcement of the law.
It said trafficked persons continued to suffer physical, emotional and psychological abuses and called for alternative livelihood mechanisms and social mitigation packages to empower the vulnerable in society.
It said the law enforcement agencies, especially the police must be sensitized on the dictates of the human trafficking law to enable them to discharge their duties effectively.
It also called for continuous education on the human trafficking law and periodic organization of workshops for stakeholders at the local levels to combat the practice.