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Plenary, with the favorable votes of the Municipal People's Party it has approved an initiative to promote the necessary legal amendments to criminalize the purchase or trafficking and women for the sex trade and those forced to prostitution.

Thus, on a proposal from Conchita Ruiz Caballero, councilor responsible for Social Rights, it is necessary to raise awareness of the plight of victims of human trafficking and promote and protect their rights as millions of people, mostly women and girls / as They are victims of networks trafficking in human beings, in their own countries and abroad.

Thus, said Ruiz Caballero, that we should "raise awareness of the plight of victims of human trafficking and promote and protect their rights."

In this sense, Ruiz Caballero said that trafficking "is a crime that exploits human beings for many purposes, including forced trafficking and sex, nearly 21 million people worldwide are victims of this."

It is therefore necessary to "raise awareness of the plight of victims of human trafficking and promote and protect their rights," stressed the popular councilman.

Ruiz Caballero added that the City Council, in collaboration with the central and regional governments, "going to report, prosecute and penalize pimping, urging the central government to promote the necessary legal amendments to criminalize and toughen penalties on those who made the purchase or trafficking in women for sexual trade and who are forced to prostitution ".

In addition, the City of Murcia "include conference programs and information seminars to raise awareness of this issue in the educational offer and promote recognition in the protocols on gender violence trafficking in women, children / as," stated Conchita Ruiz .

Finally, the mayor has stated that "it will also strengthen care and comprehensive protection for women victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation and people in prostitution, through programs of employment and social integration, psychosocial care , legal and psychological counseling and intercultural mediation. "

Source: PP Murcia