Topic: 2024-Human Trafficking
Country: Egypt
Delegate Name: Rex Blakley
Human trafficking is a terrible thing across the world, as it targets primarily women and children for the purposes of kidnapping and exploiting them. In the past laws have been passed persistently to combat human trafficking in both the United Nations (UN) and separate countries, these laws have acted to prevent the growth of this industry and help to protect people who would be victims and people who became victims.
Currently Egypt is using both financial and jail time punishments to decrease the likelihood of human trafficking taking place there, as both are deterrents for the terrible crimes. The actions taken in Egypt have caused a decrease in the amount of human trafficking and increased the amount of people sentenced for actions involving human trafficking, which shows success in preventative and enforcing measures independently within a country. But without greater international cooperation there is little that one country can do, which is why the United Nations (UN) should put greater emphasis on cooperation for the prevention and prosecution of human trafficking.
US Department of State. n.d. “2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Egypt.” 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Egypt. https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-trafficking-in-persons-report/egypt.
