Ethiopia called for increasing efforts to avoid human trafficking on the Regional Ministerial Forum on Harmonizing Labor Migration Policies in East and Horn of Africa, which concludes this Tuesday.
The Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Ergoge Tesfaye exhorted to do so and deemed that economic hardships and illegal exodus are the main causes of kidnapping and of transferring or fostering human beings by means of coercive mechanisms, reported Prensa Latina.
Ergoge leads the Ethiopian delegation at the event, inaugurated yesterday in Nairobi, Kenya, under the issue ‘A United Approach on Safe, Regular and Humane Labor Migration,’ sponsored by the International Organization for Migration/UN.
Preventing sexual exploitation, forced labor, organ trafficking and other evils related to human trafficking, is possible within frameworks of national policies and defined legal instruments, stated the official.
According to a press release of Ethiopia’s embassy in Kenya, the minister also underscored that Ethiopia signed agreements with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Jordan to arrange labor migration and guarantee the rights of Ethiopian migrant workers.
The Ethiopian Herald January 22/2020
BY STAFF REPORTER
