Qatar has confirmed that the success of the international community to put an end to the phenomenon of trafficking in persons requires concerted international efforts to address its causes, and foremost finding just solutions to conflicts and crises and fighting against impunity.
This came in a statement of the State of Qatar delivered by HE the Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations Ambassador Sheikha Alia Ahmed bint Seif al-Thani during the official meeting of the Security Council on Trafficking in Persons in Conflict Situations on Wednesday.
Sheikha Alia said that trafficking in human beings has become a global phenomenon that poses a challenge to the international will and the values of humanity, since it represents a flagrant violation of human rights.
She said that it affects vulnerable groups, especially women, children, and people with disabilities and the elderly, pointing to the disastrous results caused by forced migration as a result of conflicts and crises, which forced hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes and homelands in pursuit of safe and dignified life.
The statement said that terrorist groups are benefiting from this phenomenon by exploiting young people and recruiting them to carry out terrorist operations, or by taking advantage of the funds derived from human trafficking in those operations.
Sheikha Alia said that despite the adoption of the United Nations Convention against Organised Crime and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, the international community has failed to end conflicts, crises, and policies that violate the basic rights of individuals and peoples.
She said in the statement that the State of Qatar has supported the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons since its launch, and has taken legislative measures to issue Qatari law against trafficking in persons which criminalises trafficking in all its forms and patterns.
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