Trafficking in Persons

The Expat Protection Centre is a central hub of services operating (24/7), and provides a range of services to expatriate workers, including protection services, complaints and grievances, labour court submissions, as well as providing guidance and assistance to expatriate workers on labour related matters.
Expat Protection Centre houses:
1. National Committee for Combatting Trafficking in Persons (NCCTIPs).
2. NCCTIPs Shelter for Victims, Potential Victims of Trafficking, and Vulnerable Individuals (One for males and another for females).

In the area of combating illegal migration, the smuggling of migrants and human trafficking, the Egyptian Government ihas implemented laws to combat trafficking and Smuggling, including Law no 64 of 2010 on Combating Trafficking in Persons and law no 82 of 2016 on Combating Illegal Migration. Egypt has also implemented programs to raise awareness regarding these crimes while focusing on the vulnerable situations confronting women and children, and the protection of victims.

In 2016, Egypt launched a ten-year national strategy on combating illegal migration under the auspices of the National Committee for Combating and Preventing Illegal Migration.

On 29 November 2017, COMMIT (an inter-governmental body of the Governments of Cambodia, China, Lao, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, with UNDP’s UN-ACT project serving as Secretariat), at the 12th COMMIT Senior Officials Meeting, finalized a preamble to support ILO’s General Principles and Operational Guidelines on Fair Recruitment.

#rumoursaboutgermany – a new Federal Foreign Office website aims to get the facts out to migrants, making them less susceptible to misinformation spread by human traffickers.

This task force aims to fight or track down the traffickers of persons. It is chaired by one of the senior deputy ministers, and it is involving all stakeholders in the country, government, non-government, private sector and the civil society as well as others who are willing to help in terms of the global partners from the UN system or from bilateral donor countries.

The overall goal of the project is to contribute to Indonesia’s efforts to fight trafficking in persons by strengthening the capacity of the Government and civil society to protect and empower victims of trafficking as well as preventing vulnerable persons from being trafficked.

The Australia Asia Program to Combat Trafficking in Persons (AAPTIP) is a five-year program that aims to reduce the incentives and opportunities for human trafficking in the Philippines and ASEAN.

The Manila Declaration to Enhance International Cooperation in Combating Human Trafficking is an initiative between the Philippines and Netherlands. The Declaration strengthened cooperation and joint responsibility of each stakeholder to prevent, detect and prosecute human trafficking as well as provide victim protection. It also calls for the urgent need for a comprehensive approach to stop the news forms of modern-day slavery.

The General Attorney Office has established bureaus of special attention for migrants victims of crime in the states of Chiapas and Tabasco. Due to their geographical location, Chiapas and Tabasco are key spots in the transit of migrants from their country of origin to the north.