AGFUND joins fight against human trafficking
Nuha Adlan | Arab News
RIYADH: Prince Talal, president of Arabian Gulf Program for United Nations Development Organization (AGFUND), signed an agreement recently to finance and sponsor a project to fight human trafficking.
The project will cost $400 million and the International Labor Organization will be involved to make sure that labor rights are not violated.
This project is one of the global initiatives of the international program to fight human trafficking. According to the United Nations, 600,000 to 800,000 people are traded annually across international borders; most of the victims are women and children.
Human trafficking includes deceptive recruitment practices that lure laborers into working in foreign countries under false pretenses.
Foreign workers in the Kingdom often complain that they were duped by recruiters in their home countries. Employers in the Kingdom sometimes replace original labor contracts, a process known as “contract substitution”. Employers sometimes pass the expenses of acquiring visas onto the workers who were led to believe that the visa expenses were already paid for via the labor recruiter.
Workers find themselves stuck in their situations, unable to leave their job premises or afraid to approach authorities to complain.
AGFUND aims to gather government as well as international organizations and NGOs to support the fight against human trafficking. It also aims to spread awareness of all different types of human trafficki
---arabnews.com
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