All means must be seized in the fight against human trafficking

The European Parliament adopted a report on combatting human trafficking and protecting its victims. According to MEPs of the Fidesz-KDNP delegation, the report identifies important tools for protecting the most vulnerable. However, they added, unfortunately the report is not devoid of language and content of left-wing ideology.

 The report adopted by the European Parliament on Tuesday evening sets out the main challenges and directions for action in the fight against trafficking in human beings and makes wide-ranging proposals for identifying and protecting its victims.

“There are plenty of forms of human trafficking, but in general, it is mostly a crime against women and girls, that aims at sexual exploitation. This particularly affects Roma women and girls in invulnerable circumstances from Central and Eastern European countries who often fall into the vicious circle of human trafficking. The report sends a strong message to all the victims who we have a duty to protect,” said MEP Lívia Járóka, Vice-President of the European Parliament and member of its Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality. The Fidesz MEP is committed to the reintegration of victims of trafficking and currently working on a pilot project on the topic.

MEP Balázs Hidvéghi, member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), said that this report identifies tools to prevent organized criminal groups from benefiting from the most vulnerable, and ensure the protection of victims. “This is an important issue in which protecting victims and helping to fight crime by all means must be supported. This must be the case even if the report is characterized in some places by the usual left-wing ideological bias, both in terms of language and certain elements of content”,  Fidesz MEP Hidvéghi said.

“Hungary is committed to the fight against trafficking in human beings and to the protection of victims, as shown by the National Anti-Trafficking Strategy adopted in 2020 and the Action Plan for 2020-2021. As part of the fight against trafficking in human beings, in 2020, among other things, legislation was amended to have stricter rules on this crime, but also to pay special attention to the protection of victims”, highlighted the EPP Group MEP.