Topic:
Country: Morocco
Delegate Name: Rosalia Lascola
Great Lakes Invitational Model United Nations Conference
Delegation: Morocco
Committee: Social, Humanitarian, & Cultural Committee
Human trafficking is a significant problem that every country across the world is facing. This is a multi-million-dollar criminal industry that is not good for anyone (background guide). Money is not the only reason why human trafficking is committed, people commit this crime for slavery, exploitation and trading too (Oxford). Most of the time, the people who are taken due to human trafficking are women and children. This is a major problem because in most countries, women do not have enough rights to speak out for themselves. As a result, if something starts to happen, women may not be able to tell anyone, or people might not listen to them. Another major problem that the world is facing now is that most of the time, human traffickers take their captives then flee the country (United). They do this because there is currently no worldwide law that allows one country to arrest someone on another country’s behalf or for one country to arrest people in a different country (United). Extradition laws do help with this problem as they allow one country or state to deliver a criminal back to where they came from, allowing them to be punished properly. This is a major problem as it leads to human traffickers to not being punished for their crimes as quickly because they are no longer in that country anymore. There are some ways around this issue that the UN has made. These resolutions to the problems include different countries being able to work together (United). This is very helpful as it allows countries to work together to catch someone or to find people, but this also is not the best method for catching human traffickers. It may take countries time to communicate and make decisions which is not time we have here. By the time one country has made their decision, the human traffickers could have moved on to a different country restarting this whole process.
In Morocco, human trafficking has been a major problem in the past. This is so significant that Morocco’s major cities have been known for their sex trafficking and sexual exploitation (Philipp). Morrocco has recognized this issue and is working towards fixing it. They have held seminars on how to recognize human trafficking and how to prevent it (Training). These have taken place all around the country to try and inform everyone who wanted to attend about human trafficking. This solution to the problem has helped a bit but not enough. The people who have been trafficked in Morocco are mostly young boys for manual labor and slavery and young girls and women for servants and sex trafficking (U.S.). Morocco has put child labor laws into place in more recent years which has helped a bit but not enough (U.S.). For most children in Morocco who have been trafficked, it has happened when they were on their way to or from work. The families of these children are poor, which is why the children needed to work in the first place, and their families cannot afford to pay to get their children back. In 2022, there was 120 reported cases of human trafficking (U.S.). This number still does not represent the number of lives affected by this trafficking and the number of cases that went unreported. These 120 reported cases are much better than they would have been in the past but there is still room for improvement.
People all around the world are affected by human trafficking daily. Some people have loved ones who have been human trafficked, and others are being or have been human trafficked. This means that we need to work fast to come up with a solution to our problem. The United Nations could create a UN Police Force that would be able to help anywhere that is needed. People who are already police could join this program, then the UN would send them out to wherever they are needed. This could help limit human trafficking as these police are allowed to work in any country meaning that they could help the individual country in whatever they may need done. As for human trafficking on the country level. Countries could host meetings teaching people how to spot human trafficking and how to stop it. This would be very helpful as it will not only inform the people on this topic but also teach them what to do in case it happens. Local places in high human trafficking areas could also post signs informing people about what to do in case of being human trafficked. Most of the time, human traffickers are willing to give back the person for a certain sum of money. One organization that the United Nations could take in to help families get children back from human trafficking is The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s Team HOPE (Team). This organization will help get children back to their families. All these resources would be very helpful for stopping the industry of human trafficking.
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Training helps civil society combat human trafficking in Morocco. International Organization for Migration. (n.d.). https://www.iom.int/news/training-helps-civil-society-combat-human-trafficking-morocco
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U.S. Department of State. (n.d.). U.S. Department of State. https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-trafficking-in-persons-report/morocco/
