The committee will discuss Resolution 8-37, “Requesting the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia to enact legislation in support of the U.N. Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime.”
In a statement, Sen. Jesse Raglmar-Subolmar, the committee chairman, it has been brought to the attention of the Legislature that there could potentially be a number of trafficking in human cases involving children fraudulently being adopted by foreign persons.
He said the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia recently acceded to the United Nations Protocols to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons especially Women and Children, which Protocol supplementing the United Nations on Convention against Transitional Organized Crime.
