Press Bulletin
Dirección de Prensa y Comunicaciones
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Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
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Labour and Justice Portfolios coordinate actions
against human trafficking
The Labour Minister, Carlos Tomada; and his Justice peer, Julio Alak; agreed to deepen the interministry work against human trafficking for labour exploitation purposes and facilitate the access of
citizens to employment law by means of the www.infojus.gov.ar website. Moreover, a joint book
against human trafficking for labour exploitation purposes was presented.
In his speech, Tomada said that “we will work so that there is a greater coincidence to combat
trafficking, so that it is made visible and does not remain neutralized. Before this stage, people
would not even talk about this.” Besides, he stressed “the progress made in the field of labour
reintegration the Ministry is developing to help the victims.”
In turn, Julio Alak held that “human trafficking is the main part of a crime which expressed the
return to slavery.” He also informed that “since the Law 26364 was passed in 2008, 5,884 persons
were rescued by means of 2,745 search warrants, whereas in the first ten months in 2013, more
than 1,560 victims were rescued.
The book presented was the result of the work of the Inter Ministry Coordinator Round Table, an
interdisciplinary team gathering representatives of ministries and state agencies. Its purpose is to
prevent the crime, focused on dissemination of state devices created to support and help victims;
and to complementary and coordinated lines of action displayed among the several state agencies.
The publication provides for the need to articulate programmes to raise awareness among the
population in order to contribute to make the problem more visible, especially for those sectors
which are more vulnerable and prone to become the target of this crime. It also proposes the
implementation of mutual protocols to act contributing to a greater efficiency in the measures
adopted to combat the crime.
Moreover, the officials signed the agreement by means of which the Labour Ministry will participate
in the Argentine Law Vocabulary Bank by providing the meaning of the concepts on work,
employment, social security and professional training, within their field.
Press Bulletin
Dirección de Prensa y Comunicaciones
Leandro N. Alem 650, piso 11. C1001AA0
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Tel.: (011) 4310-6110/6114 Fax: (011) 4310-6107
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The Argentine Law Vocabulary Bank exchanges information by generating information systems
about its main competences. It is the legal information terminological service in the
www.infojus.gov.ar. , devoted to facilitate citizens access to legal information, in a comprehensive,
free and easy way by using the new technologies.
Thus, the user is provided with the knowledge of law and he can also disseminate the Argentine
legal thought. The vocabulary bank provides basic tools for the documentary management, that is
to say, to find, retrieve, visualize the legal information in Argentina by means of these vocabularies
which shape the representation of the legal knowledge by means of organized or classified terms.
The event brought together the Labour Relations Undersecretary, Álvaro Ruiz; the Undersecretary
of Relations with the Judicial Power, Franco Piccardi; the Coordination Undersecretary, Horacio
Ordeix; the General Director of Documentary File, Management and Registry, Teresa Salatino; the
Coordinator of Policies to Prevent Addictions and Abuse of Psychotropic Substances and Drugs
with an Impact on the World of Work, Lucía García; among other officials.
Thanks for disseminating this information.
Buenos Aires, 12 December 2013.