uniap_2010ht_datasheets

HuMAN TRAFFICkING CAsEs, OFFENDERs AND vICTIMs
2008 2009
38 Total trafficking cases 50 Total trafficking cases
23 Alleged offenders 74 10
64
Alleged offenders
49 Victims 52 103 Victims 53
8
30
Cases forwarded to the
prosecutor’s office
Trafficking in Persons
Trafficking in Women
and Children
Where the offence is:
Cases that lacked sufficient
substantive evidence with
which to pursue criminal
prosecution 55
26
8
Cases still under
investigation 54
Cases forwarded to
the prosecutor’s office
involving 12 offenders
PENAlTIEs FOR TRAFFICkING OFFENCEs IN lAO PDR
Where the offence causes
the victim:
15
Article 134 of the Lao Penal Law (2005)
criminalises human trafficking and
attempts to commit trafficking offences.
Article 24 of the Law on the Development
and Protection of Women (2004)
criminalises trafficking in women and
children, and acting as an accomplice,
and provides information on various
acts that could be considered to have
been committed as an accomplice.
This includes providing ideas, property,
transportation, concealment of persons
or destruction of evidence. This Article
does not, however, apply to male victims.
Penalties are specified under Article
134 and Article 34 of the Lao Penal
Law (2005) and Article 49 of the Law
on the Development and Protection of
Women (2004).
Imprisonment for 5 to 15 years plus a fine of 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 kip 56
Performed as a regular profession
Committed as part of an organised
group
Trafficking of child victims
Committed by a close relative of
the victim
Such that it causes the victim to
suffer serious injury , become an
invalid, or insane
To be a lifetime invalid
To be infected with HIV
To die
Imprisonment for 15 to 20 years
+ fine of 100,000,000 to 500,000,000 kip
+ confiscation of property 57
Life imprisonment58 + fine of 500,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 kip
+ confiscation of property