European Union "We have failed to give our children what they most need from us: protection"

23 Jan 2009 |

paper*: MEP Marusya Lyubcheva is the leader of the anti-child trafficking initiative in the European Parliament. She takes the floor on this website to give two main orientations: 1. “Child trafficking is not a problem of one or a group of countries, it is a global, cross-border issue and needs common measures", and 2. “We need to urge the Member States to implement common standards in the victims’ treatment process, encompassed by a framework, funded on both national and EU level.” As a MEP, she recognizes that “all our efforts will remain useless, unless the Member States undertake the necessary actions to support them” and she calls for “the involvement and uniting of all sectors of the civil society through permanent anti-trafficking and awareness-raising campaigns”.