QFCHT Eyes National Alliance against Human Trafficking

Doha, October 03 (QNA) -Qatar Foundation for Combating Human Trafficking (QFCHT) held on Wednesday a consultative workshop aimed at creating national alliances to confront human trafficking. The workshop, which presented Qatar s scheme confronting human trafficking, was attended by representatives from national human trafficking institutes, civil organizations, partners of the Arab initiative, and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). It comes within the framework of the Arab Initiative for building national capacities for combating human trafficking and to establish a frame that the alliance would work within to fight human trafficking In a speech inaugurating the workshop, General Manager of (QFCHT), Maryam Al Malki, stressed the need to create alliances concerned with fighting this issue and to enhance the skills of the personnel working in this field as well. They should be able to identify the ways and the methods under which human trafficking happens, and ways of handling human trafficking victims, she said. Al Maliki also pointed out the need to take the laws and the regulations of each country on fighting human trafficking into consideration when it comes to addressing the development of their strategies to combating this issue. General Manager of (QFCHT), Maryam Al Malki also highlighted the importance of the Arab initiative on building the potentials of the personnel working infighting human trafficking. Al Maliki said that the three main catalysts of the success of fighting human trafficking are the governments, civil society institutions, as well as the private sectors. Civil society institutes could play a pivotal role in supporting the government’s efforts to confront human trafficking, she added. The civil society institutes could do this through the participation in the alliances created in this concern, and monitor the implementation of laws and agreements to fight human trafficking, Al Maliki noted. General Manager of (QFCHT), further said that the civil society is currently intending, within the framework of the created alliances, to establish rehabilitation programs meant to tune the human trafficking victims within the society. The private sector s role, however, comes with the enabling of these alliances with all the financial resources to train the personnel working in this area. (QNA)