Committee to combat human trafficking to be set up in Qatar

Plans are afoot to establish a committee that would fight human trafficking in Qatar. The Cabinet yesterday approved a proposal from the labor ministry to set up the body.

It would be tasked with creating a national plan to counter human trafficking and preparing annual reports on Qatar’s efforts, QNA stated.

Over the summer, Qatar’s failure to do enough to tackle the trafficking of people kept it on the US government’s watch-list for a third year.

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The latest edition of the US State Department’s 2016 Trafficking in Person’s Report said that Qatar was making “significant efforts” to tackle the problem, but much more needed to be done.

It described trafficking as “the act of recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for compelled labor or commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud, or coercion.”