According to Francisco Queirós, cooperation between Angola and Portugal in this field also extends to other countries, because it is usually the commercial routes of civil aviation that are used by traffickers to make the flow of their activity.
"Portugal is the country with which Angola has the most traffic of people and goods, but there are other destinations with which Angola has this relationship of controlling the movement of people and goods. The traffickers look at these routes and take advantage of the weaknesses that may exist on both sides," said the ruler, when questioned by Lusa.
The responsible was speaking this Wednesday on the sidelines of a lecture on Trafficking in Human Beings in Angola, promoted by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights in partnership with the Jesuit Refugee Service.
According to Francisco Queirós, people vulnerable to sexual exploitation, exploitation of child labour and exploitation for commercialization of human organs constitute the profile of the victim of human trafficking in the country.
The "criminals prefer above all the part of sexual trafficking, trafficking of human beings as women and men for sexual exploitation, there is also the trafficking of children for the purpose of child labour exploitation".
But, he noted, "there is a very worrying phenomenon at international level which is the extraction of human organs, with long queues on the international market to be able to do the transplant, and then traffickers take advantage of these needs to be able to traffic as well".
In the lecture addressed to registrars and notaries, topics such as prevention of trafficking in human beings in the registry and notary services and stateless person/lack of birth registration as a risk to trafficking were addressed.
