The Protocol Against Trafficking of Women and Children of the members of the ASEAN NHRI Forum will be developed in two parts. There will be four national workshops in each of the home countries of the Forum's members (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand), and one regional workshop to be held in the Philippines. This project is spearheaded by the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines.

The national workshop aims to draw a set of recommendations on what a national human rights institution or a human rights commission can offer to trafficked persons.

Specifically, the workshop should be able to outline the following recommendations:

• The important role of the state's national human rights institution in addressing the exacerbating problem on trafficking;
• The particular feature of national human rights institutions of being neither governmental nor non-governmental, enabling it to perform the function of being a competent mediator between the two institutions, and which feature likewise qualifies it to be an effective facility to employ especially by the marginalized sectors of society.
• The limitations and legal restrictions, albeit valid, that nonetheless inhibit national human rights institutions from offering its programmes to trafficked individuals abroad.

As for the regional workshop, it aims to consolidate all outputs from the national level and to formulate the protocol against trafficking of women and children of the ASEAN NHRI Forum. The same shall be forwarded to the highly anticipated ASEAN Human Rights Body for its consideration and adoption.

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Project Design on Developing ANF's Protocol Against Trafficking

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