The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Darkoa Newman, has called on member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to incorporate the views of women into policies to combat Transnational Organised Crimes (TOCs) in the sub-region.
TOCs are organised crimes coordinated across national borders, involving groups or individuals working in more than one country to plan and execute illegal business ventures through violence and corruption and it includes human trafficking, drug trafficking, money laundering and terrorist financing.
According to her, women bore the brunt of TOCs and thus their perspectives must be brought to bear on policies to curb such menace.
Ms Newman stated this in a speech read on her behalf by a Deputy Director of the Ministry of Gender.
