The State of Qatar has confirmed that it will continue its support for any effort of the UN Security Council to put an end to trafficking in persons in conflict-affected areas, and to achieve international peace and security in the region and the world.
Qatar stressed that the success of the international community to end this phenomenon requires concerted international efforts to address its causes and foremost finding just solutions to conflicts and crises, fighting against impunity and completing the principle of accountability.
This came in a statement of the State of Qatar delivered by the Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations Ambassador Sheikha Alia Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani during the Ministerial-level open debate of the Security Council on Trafficking in Persons in Conflict Situations.
The statement pointed out that the State of Qatar has supported the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons since its launch, and has taken legislative measures to issue Qatari law against trafficking in persons which criminalizes trafficking in all its forms and patterns.
The statement noted to Qatar's efforts in combating crime as it hosted the 13th Congress on Crime Prevention last year, which resulted in the Doha Declaration and adopted a comprehensive approach to address the crime of human trafficking.
It pointed out that Qatar is one of the biggest supporters of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) as the main UN reference to combat trafficking in persons. The statement also added that Qatar is one of the biggest donors to the United Nations Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons since its inception.
Moreover, the statement said that the reports presented at the Ministerial-level open debate of the Security Council on Trafficking in Persons in Conflict Situations revealed alarming statistics on the growing of human trafficking phenomenon, and confirmed the causal relationship between conflicts and the growing phenomenon of trafficking in persons.
Qatar's statement, delivered by H E Ambassador Sheikha Alia Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani, said that the forced migration is at the forefront of the severe impacts of conflicts, which forced hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homelands for a safe and dignified life.
It further stressed that the challenge that the international community faces today, not only lies in the promotion of frameworks and tools to address this phenomenon, but in addressing the key factors that contribute to escalating it, particularly the extended and new crisis, which force innocent civilians to search for security, exposing them to the risk of being trafficked.
