Government to respond to report on trafficking in persons
Hani Hazaimeh;12/6/08
The government is preparing an official response to a US State Department report on trafficking, which placed Jordan on the Tier 2 Watch List, a Labour Ministry official told The Jordan Times on Sunday. The eighth annual “Trafficking in Persons Report 2008”, issued last week, said the Kingdom was put on the watch list for its “failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking in persons over the previous year, particularly in the area of law enforcement against trafficking for forced labour”. “National labour laws do not apply to domestic or agriculture workers, including allegations of physical and sexual abuse,” the report indicated. But a union official said the government has made substantial amendments to the Labour Law, which is currently being examined by Parliament.