A committee on human trafficking is to be established in Qatar, the state news agency announced.
Qatar’s cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal by the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs to set up the committee.
It will be tasked with devising a national strategy to combat human trafficking in Qatar and preparing an annual report on its efforts in the field, QNA said.
The committee will be chaired by a representative from the ministry and comprise representatives of designated authorities.
The Gulf state is under pressure globally to do more to counter human trafficking. In July, the US State Department’s latest annual Trafficking in Person’s Report revealed that Qatar remains on the US government’s human trafficking ‘watch list’ for the third year running.
The 2016 report said that Qatar was making “significant” efforts to tackle the problem but more work needed to be done.
The US’ report describes human trafficking as “the act of recruiting, harbouring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for compelled labour or commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud, or coercion”.
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