22/02/2010 Equality and Non-Discrimination
“The Council of Europe Convention on action against trafficking in human beings will reach its full potential when it is ratified by other countries in Europe and beyond. The wider the ratification of the Convention is, the better the protection for victims will be. The role of parliamentarians is crucial to this end,” today recalled Kent Olsson (Sweden, EPP/CD), at a seminar on trafficking in human beings organised in London by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the British Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
In its resolution adopted last January, the Assembly called on Council of Europe member states which had not yet done so to sign and/or ratify this convention, and encouraged the European Union to accede to it.