A workshop held by the International Organisation for Migration and the Public Security Department reached the conclusion that the issue of human trafficking should be pursued and dealt with on regional basis.
The theme of the meeting, “Regional dialogue to enhance the identification and protection of victims of trafficking”, is telling: fighting against trafficking in human beings cannot be conducted at national level alone, it, rather, requires regional cooperation.
Aware of the importance of cooperation in the fight against this phenomenon, experts from several Arab countries took part in the gathering, sharing their experience with the rest of the participants.
Trafficking involves countries of origin, transit and destination, and therefore combating it needs regional cooperation.
The problem feeds on poverty and unemployment. Jordan, fortunately, does not have serious problems with human trafficking, yet it signed and ratified the Convention against Transnational Organised Crime and its Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children.
Categories: Asia, Jordan, Law, Middle East
I am not saying that the problem does not exist, however ‘human trafficking’ is the ‘darling’ of the International Organizations. In Jordan and the whole region the issue of domestic helpers and imported labor on the whole is much more important and should be tackled ‘head-on’ without the ‘indirect approach’ via human trafficking. (see my other posts on the subject).