Experts discuss ways to combat trafficking at a meeting in Oman

Muscat: To combat human trafficking due to existing conflicts, a meeting of Arab experts began at the Sheraton Hotel under the patronage of Hamad bin Khamis Al A’meri, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Manpower for Labour Affairs.
The two-day meeting is being hosted by the Sultanate, represented by the National Commission for Human Trafficking (NCHT) in collaboration with UN Office on Drugs and Crime for GCC States.
The meeting comes within the framework of the Arab initiative to build national capacity to combat human trafficking in the Arab countries, which aims to support and develop the Arab system involved in combating this phenomenon, according to United Nations related standards and conventions.
The meeting aims to provide standards, guidelines, statistics and studies by the United Nations about the human trafficking crimes and mechanism to address the new forms for these crimes because of ongoing conflicts.
The meeting also aims to support the national, regional and non-regional cooperation and communication, among the concerned authorities and law enforcement agencies and the concerned victim-referring authorities.
The meeting covers several topics, including the global framework of the phenomenon, human trafficking and the impact of conflicts based on migration and displacement in Arab areas, the impact of migration and migrants on the growing phenomenon of trafficking in persons and related to the protection and support of the people and the victims of trafficking of displaced groups, and to identify the victims of human trafficking within the displaced groups.
The meeting targets national commissions that care for fields related to combating human trafficking, law enforcement authorities and the agencies in charge of referring victims.