(MENAFN- The Peninsula) QNA
New York: The State of Qatar has stressed that the increasing number of victims of the phenomenon of trafficking in persons, especially women and children, is placing greater responsibility on the international community and requires intensifying efforts to meet the commitments that no one is left behind in the implementation of development goals and Sustainable development of 2030.
This came in a statement delivered by Abdulrahman Yacoub Al Hammadi, Charge d'Affaires of the State of Qatar's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, at the open debate of the Security Council on 'Trafficking in Persons in Conflict.
The State of Qatar warned that the danger of trafficking in persons was aggravated by the use of terrorist groups to attract and recruit young people to carry out terrorist operations or to benefit from trafficking in persons to carry out such operations, as stated in the Secretary-General's report pursuant to Security Council resolution 2331 .
The State of Qatar stressed that, in accordance with its commitment to international law and in its belief in the importance of promoting and protecting human rights and the need to preserve human dignity, Qatar continues to work tirelessly to contribute to international efforts to combat and eliminate this abhorrent phenomenon.
The statement added that Qatar is focusing its efforts on addressing the root causes of trafficking in persons, whether social, economic, cultural, political or ideological, or the absence of the rule of law and others.
The State of Qatar was working hard to promote complementarity and cooperation among those involved in the formulation and implementation of State strategies and plans in the areas of counter-terrorism, corruption and humanitarian action in order to ensure that the objective of combating and eradicating trafficking in persons was achieved at the national, regional and international levels.
The State of Qatar stressed that at the national level, many legislative and executive measures have been adopted to criminalize trafficking in persons in all its forms to ensure that perpetrators are punished, to protect victims, to rehabilitate them and to integrate them into society besides unifying efforts of the State's institutions and the civil society in dealing with this abhorrent phenomenon.
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