In conjunction with the International Day against Human Trafficking, corresponding to the 30th of July of each year, the Partners Foundation for Transparency calls for the need for the cooperation of the international community to address this phenomenon, and affirms that human trafficking is a serious crime and a flagrant violation of human rights that affects thousands of men, women and children who fall prey to The hands of the traffickers, both in their countries and abroad. Every country in the world is affected by the phenomenon of human trafficking, whether that country is the origin, transit or destination point of the victims.

Partners Foundation confirms that many of those who fall victim to human trafficking are immigrants, including refugees and asylum seekers, who decided to leave their country for various reasons such as conflicts, natural disasters and persecution.

In this regard, Partners for Transparency made an oral intervention during a seminar in the presence of the Special Rapporteur on the issue of human trafficking, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, entitled “The Critical Role in Combating Human Trafficking” on the sidelines of the 41st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, and Mirna Shalash confirmed The Coordinator of International Relations at the Partners Foundation, that to prevent the spread and increase of this phenomenon, the UN mechanisms, including the Human Rights Council, must impose sanctions on countries that help spread the phenomenon of human trafficking, and she confirmed that there are a number of countries that are working to spread and exacerbate this phenomenon, including Israel.

On the International Day against Human Trafficking, Partners for Transparency calls on states to intensify international efforts to activate state agreements against human trafficking, and stresses the need to hold accountable countries that cause the increase and spread of this phenomenon And it calls on everyone not to ignore this crime and the serious violation of human rights.