(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Amman March 23 (Petra) -- Interior Minister Salamah Hammad Wednesday represented Jordan in the Sixth Ministerial Conference of the Bali Process on People Smuggling Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational Crime currently being held in the Indonesian resort island of Bali.
In his opening remarks the minister said that the social humanitarian and religious grounds in dealing with human beings made it incumbent upon all of us to respect their rights.
Those behind the human trafficking crime are exploiting peoples' conditions of extreme poverty unemployment regional conflicts economic disparities and political instability by luring them with false promises said the minister.
"Stemming from the Jordanian government belief that this global phenomenon of human trafficking poses a serious challenge that requires national effort to counter it the government introduced mechanisms to keep the Kingdom free of this danger" Hammad added.
He tackled a number of legislation in this regard of which are the Penal Code anti-human trafficking and labor laws which he said would contribute to preventing the phenomenon.
Hammad stressed that Jordan was early alerted to this danger of human trafficking.
Jordan the minister said had developed a national strategy to prevent human trafficking and introduced a special branch in the Public Security Department to fight human trafficking in 2008 before the anti-human trafficking law was endorsed.
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