Saudi human rights chief: Electronic link project to help fight human trafficking

Human rights violations in government agencies to be monitored
Human rights violations in government agencies to be monitored

Awwad bin Saleh Al-Awwad, president of the Kingdom's HumanRights Commission (HRC), stressed the importance of concerted effortsbetween various authorities to combat and eliminate the crime of humantrafficking at a meeting of the Committee for Combating Trafficking in Persons,where he praised the electronic link project between different sections of theHRC.


Al-Awwad presented the Kingdom's achievements in thispreventing human trafficking through the regulations that it had imposed,international agreements and protocols it had adhered to, and memorandums ofunderstanding (MoU) signed between it and relevant international organizationsand bodies. All these, he said, had contributed to building a regulatory andinstitutional framework ensuring the protection of all persons from humantrafficking, and enforced prosecution against perpetrators.


During a meeting with the executive director of the UN Officeon Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Judge Hatim Ali, officials from the InternationalOrganization for Migration (IOM) and a number of government agencies,Al-Awwad noted that the electronic link project was a step in the rightdirection to combat the crime of human trafficking by aiding coordinationbetween various government authorities.


The meeting also tackled measures that will be adopted by theUNODC according to an MoU signed with the HRC to tighten cooperation incombating and preventing trafficking in persons, providing technical andadministrative expertise at centers that shelter victims, and establishingappropriate mechanisms to provide legal, financial and moral support.

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