Al-Bayan Center for Studies and Planning, in coordination with the High Commission for Human Rights / Baghdad Office, hosted a specialized training workshop on combating human trafficking crimes within the Iraqi Department of Corrections, with the participation of staff, researchers, and legal professionals in the Department of Corrections and the prison sections affiliated with men’s, women’s, and juvenile prisons.
The workshop reviewed international legal frameworks, foremost among them the “Palermo Protocol” and the International Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, alongside the Iraqi law concerning the combating of human trafficking crimes. It also touched upon the most important forms of human trafficking crimes inside prisons, how to detect these crimes, and how prison administrations deal with these cases.
The workshop addressed the national framework for dealing with this issue and international experiences in dealing with human trafficking crimes within detention centers and prisons in the world.
This workshop comes within the framework of cooperation between the Al-Bayan Center for Studies and Planning and government sectors, to promote human rights concepts and combat extremism.
