Combating human trafficking
Combating Human Trafficking NOW in QATAR
Over the past recent years, the human trafficking phenomenon emerged on the international level as one of the most serious challenges facing the international community, after a large number of countries became strong hubs of human trafficking which is run by organized crime gangs and network
The sponsorship system isn't human trafficking per se, but it does aid those involved in human trafficking, mostly through the exit visa system.
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Human trafficking exists in those countries too where there is no sponsorship system. Who is to be blamed for that.
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We see these ads on the streets, and most Qataris are perplexed by them...
They seem mostly unrelated to much of what happens here, LP talks about the sponsorship system, but the website linked above says that human trafficking is "recruiting or transporting or sheltering or receiving under threat or exploitation or force or other kinds of compulsion or kidnapping or deception or trickery or misuse of authority or exploitation of the weakness or giving/taking benefits to attain the approval of person, for the purposes of exploitation for work such as prostitution or sexual exploitation or forced labor or drudgery or making slave or similar activities of slavery or bondage or removing organs." (from one of "Palermo Protocols").
Then this doesn't seem to apply to the sponsorship system.
The 'sponsorship system' is the perfect environment for human trafficking. Qatar is a slave state.
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Source:
- A study Conducted by FriedUnicorn - Vol I (September,1999)
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