QFCHT Holds Awareness Lecture on Forced Labor

Doha, June 19 (QNA) -Qatar Foundation for Combating Human Trafficking (QFCHT) today organized an awareness lecture for about 350 workers, entitled "forced labor in the light of Qatari national law on combating human trafficking, at the Workers Health Centre in Industrial Area. The lecture was delivered by legal expert at QFCHT Dr. Mahmoud Said, who tackled a number of topics, including the national and international legislative framework on combating the exploitation of workers in the forced labor, saying the most cases of human trafficking in the world take the form of the forced labor, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates. He pointed to the criminalization of the Qatari legislator to this criminal pattern in accordance with Article II of the Anti-Human Trafficking Law No. 15 of 2011. (QNA)