Written By Vanessa Kariuki ||
CS Labour and Social Protection Florence Bore, joined her Roads and Transport Counterpart Kipchumba Murkomen at the launch of Kenya Airways Trafficking in Persons Policy Awareness campaign.
The campaign is aimed at educating Kenya Airways employees and the general public about the crime of human trafficking. It was organized in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Trafficking in persons refers to the forced, coerced, fraudulent, or other types of deceptive recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring, or receiving of people for the purpose of exploitation.
Several of the methods used in trafficking are against international human rights legislation. For instance, human rights law prohibits violations of human rights such as forced marriage, debt bondage, slavery, servitude, child sexual exploitation, and forced prostitution.
In order to increase awareness and subsequently scale up prevention and punishment of the crime, government officials found it necessary to collaborate with stakeholders like the Ministry of Transport, because transportation systems play a crucial role in the chain of this international crime.
