In a bid to tackle human trafficking, the Government of Liberia, through the National Anti-human Trafficking Taskforce has launched the Amendment to the National Anti-Human Trafficking of Liberia.
Launching the Anti-Human Trafficking Law, in the Conference Room of the Ministry of Labour, in Monrovia, on Friday, October 29, 2021 during the regular Taskforce Meeting, the Chairman of the Taskforce, Labour Minister Cllr. Charles H. Gibson has hailed the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for printing the Law into Handbill. “A Law is not a law until it is published. It is an enactment when the Legislature passes it. ‘It is an endorsed enactment when the Executive or President signs it, but it becomes a law when it is published.” Minister noted.
Minister Gibson said that the Taskforce has hired the services of ten (10) local civil society groups and it is set to engage the Press Union of Liberia and other institutions to ensure proper and full dissemination of the law. Cllr. Gibson is hopeful that the information dissemination reaches every nook and cranny and the world at large.
The Chairman of the National Anti-Human Trafficking Taskforce said that the law has in it a change of balance between civil liability and criminal conviction. He noted that law has also included in it restitution for victims for damages incurred as the result of trafficking.
He maintained that under this new law, everything that was used intentionally, knowingly, negligently, and recklessly in the commission of the crime of human trafficking can be auditioned by the court to satisfy restitution to the victim.
Minister Gibson said that the plenty for the act of human trafficking by convicts is minimum of twenty (20) jail sentence noting that Liberia now has some of the most stringent law on human trafficking in the world.
Local and international partners at the meeting thanked Minister Gibson for the launch of the Law and have pledged their support to work with the National Anti-Human Trafficking Taskforce of Liberia achieve its objectives.
The ceremony was graced by Line Ministries and Agencies, the US Embassy, IDLO, Winrock International, World-Hope, ILO, the Press, the Religious Community as well as Civil Society Groups in the fight against human trafficking in Liberia.
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