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Project name: Programs of the U.S. Department of Justice/Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance, and Training (DOJ/OPDAT)

Start date: FY 2001

End date: FY 2006

Project description:
The program has focused on reform of criminal justice legislation and capacity building for justice sector personnel. Accomplishments of the program include: criminalization of human trafficking in the Penal Code; passage of the National Combating Trafficking in Human Beings Act; an institutionalized system of probation; passage of the Witness Protection law; amendments to the Law on Measures Against Money Laundering; passage of the Civil Asset Forfeiture Law; and amendments to the Penal Code. Most significant is the human trafficking law, which is touted as the best human trafficking legislation in the region.

Implementer: State Department/INL

Funding: $9,049,174