UAE launches awareness campaign to combat human trafficking

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UAE launches awareness campaign to combat human trafficking

The National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking (NCCHT) introduced a media project to develop general awareness regarding human trafficking as well as easy methods to fight it.

Targeted at all citizenships and communities, targets, possible targets and traffickers, the project, which began in December 2015, will certainly run till June 2016.

Designed to get to a random sample of you in the UAE, the campaign has been launched in multiple languages and will certainly carried across various print, electronic as well as social networks networks.

"This national campaign is a representation of the government's commitment to stand strongly against abuse of people with exploitation," stated Dr. Anwar Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, and Chairman of the NCCHT.

The project will also convey the NCCHT's method in battling this criminal offense, communicating details of as well as changes to Federal Law 51 (2006), which came to be efficient in early 2015, and advertising and marketing helpline numbers for the benefit of informers and also victims.

"In the UAE's nearly-decade-long experience in fighting this crime, we have actually recognized that the more you realize concerning exactly what makes up human trafficking and also how maybe avoided, the more efficient our counter-trafficking strategy will certainly be," Dr Anwar included.

According to Dr. Saeed Al Ghafli, Rapporteur for NCCHT, a number of tools have been preferred to convey the various messages to various sections of the people staying in the country.

Newspaper promotions in English and also Arabic are aimed at the general public, as would be hoardings at airport terminals, which will be rolled out soon; radio places in English, Arabic, Hindi and Tagalog are aimed at potential victims as well as traffickers, apart from the public in basic; pocket-size booklets, which will certainly be dispersed at flight terminals, are in 8 languages-- English, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Tagalog, Bengali, Russian and also Basha Indonesia-- as well as are implied to assist potential sufferers; and a number of brief videos on social media would certainly serve as source of information to the worldwide viewers about the UAE's accomplishments and also obstacles.

"The NCCHT has actually also overhauled its website (www.nccht.gov.ae) to act as a one-stop source of details on its anti-trafficking approach considering that 2006, when Federal Law 51 was operationalized," Dr. Saeed stated.

"The UAE's intent is making the fight versus human trafficking a collaboration between the government as well as the general public," he added.