Tenaganita Information

Tenaganita has been involved in combating human trafficking since the organization was founded in 1991. It has collaborated with government agencies including the Royal Malaysian Police to raise awareness of the problem, to rescue survivors and to bring perpetrators to justice. In 2015 Change Your World, working with Tenaganita, launched the Be My Protector campaign, primarily through the social media, to reach out to more than 500.000 people to highlight the importance of fighting human trafficking. The Malaysian government has declared its firm commitment to eradicate the scourge of human trafficking in the country and has taken various measures to achieve its avowed target of achieving Tier 1 status by 2020, in the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report by the US state department. Six special courts with experienced judges are being established to deal with human trafficking cases,; the first such court was set up in Klang last month. However a major challenge encountered in successfully prosecuting perpetrators of the crime, is the apparent difficulty in defining the crime of human trafficking in operational terms and in identifying victims of the crime. It is anticipated that as public prosecutors work through the full implications of the ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS AND. ANTI-SMUGGLING OF MIGRANTS ACT 2007, the number of successful prosecutions under the Act will rise significantly to reflect the magnitude of the problem.