Topic: 2024-Human Trafficking
Country: Mozambique
Delegate Name: Benjamin Harris
The main problem that I am focusing on is human trafficking in the country of Mozambique. This is a huge problem that is causing many smaller problems to arise. The main problem at this moment is that they don’t have enough money to assist people who were previously taken through human trafficking. They do not have enough money for this cause because they have been dealing with insufficient tax collection and slow economic growth. Some things that are at stake are the overall population decreasing because of the mass amounts of human trafficking, if they stop this then Mozambique would be a much safer place that might even attract people to live there. One of the many things that Mozambique has done to end human trafficking is ratifying the Palermo protocols. The Palermo protocols are protocols that punish traffickers and prevent human trafficking. Another thing that they’re also doing is creating the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime which is a policy that helps officials to enforce laws against and fight human trafficking. One other thing they are doing is informing the public of the existence of human trafficking and how to stay away from it through the public awareness campaigns that they’ve had. From my perspective, I believe that Mozambique is trying fairly hard to end this big issue but there are still many things that they could be doing to help this issue go away. There have been many changes to the way that Mozambique has been running to decrease the number of cases of human trafficking but it doesn’t seem to be helping as much as it should which means they need to try some new and different things to combat this terrible situation. There are many things that Mozambique could do to fight human trafficking in today’s age and I’ll give you a few examples. One example of what they could do is make the borders around the country a lot more secure which would also include having more thorough checks on imported and exported goods. Another thing is that they could make more strict laws or ratify some of the laws to make them more strict so that these acts wouldn’t go unpunished and acted upon. Another great thing they could do to help is have more victim support and rehabilitation services which would help with the way that someone who dealt with human trafficking would live their life. One last thing I believe they could do is create more job opportunities for people in poverty or anyone else. This would help greatly because the main target for human traffickers is people in poverty or homeless people and more job opportunities would make the overall economy in Mozambique a lot better than what it currently is. I believe that Mozambique is doing an okay good job at taking care of this but some things could be improved and changed to make it even better. I believe that if they used some of the ideas I suggested then this problem could controlled a lot more and the rates of human trafficking could go down.
