17 April 2009

Middle East & North Africa Legislation

  • Bahrain, Israel, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates have included in their criminal laws the offense of trafficking in persons for the purposes of sexual exploitation or forced labor, with no specification as to the age of the victim.
  • Egypt criminalized child trafficking in June 2008.
  • Morocco includes human trafficking in its criminal code, but without any definition.
  • Sudan included human trafficking in its 2007 cyber crime legislation, but also without any definition.
  • Iraqi criminal codes specifies trafficking of women and children.

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