ACTION AGAINST TRAFFICKING

That this House welcomes the recognition in the UK Action Plan on Tackling Trafficking of the Department for International Development's support for anti-trafficking projects in source countries; notes with concern the continuing link between lack of opportunities and education, and an increased vulnerability to trafficking, particularly amongst women and children; further welcomes the programmes by Save the Children and World Vision in West Africa to tackle child trafficking through education; calls on the Government to adopt this anti-trafficking approach in bilateral and multilateral development plans, through providing tailored education and training programmes to people identified as vulnerable to trafficking, thus reducing the number of people trafficked; and notes that this would both correlate with and help achieve the Millennium Development Goals.