International Financial Reporting System Poland

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Admin
International Financial Reporting System Poland

International Financial Reporting System Poland

Poland’s accession to both the European Union (EU) and the Schengen zone has transformed it into both a transit and destination country for human trafficking, a United Nations independent expert said noting that the Eastern European nation has made progress in fighting the scourge.

The scale of trafficking was already serious in Poland, but has become aggravated in the past five years due to joining the EU and the Schengen zone, Joy Ngozi, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, said after wrapping up a six-day visit to the country by end of May 2009. “The endemic forms of trafficking include, but are not limited to, trafficking for labour exploitation, for prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation,” she said.

UN Convention Signed but trafficking Cases on the Rise

According to information provided by both the Government and by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the number of trafficking cases is on the rise. Poland has ratified key international and human rights treaties, including the Protocol on Trafficking in Persons to the 2000 United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo Protocol), under which States are required to take action to ensure the protection of trafficking victims, prevent trafficking and bring traffickers to justice.

Ms. Ngozi said that the Government has taken steps in combating the scourge through cooperation with neighbouring countries. It has amended its Criminal Code to punish perpetrators of trafficking and has a law on domestic violence in place.