Title

Qatar: Law No. 15 of 2011 Combating Trafficking in Human Beings

Date of adoption

24 October 2011

Entry into force

21 November 2011

Text versions

Arabic

English

Sources:

– Official Journal Issue No. 11 (21 November 2011) p. 9. Retrieved from: Al-Meezan Qatar Legal Portal, accessed 21 May 2013.

– http://www.almeezan.qa/LawPage.aspx?id=2512&language=ar

– http://www.almeezan.qa/LawPage.aspx?id=2512&language=en

Abstract

For the purposes of this law, whoever deals in a coercive or transactional way with a natural person, including the use, transport, delivery, harboring, reception or receipt, whether within the state territory or across its national borders; by means of force, violence, or threat thereof; or through abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power, or exploitation of a position of vulnerability or need; or through a promise to give or receive payments or benefits in exchange for obtaining the consent of a person to traffic another person; if the purpose of the transactions was exploitation in whatever form, including; exploitation in acts of prostitution and all forms of sexual exploitation, exploitation of children in such acts and in pornography, begging, forced  labor or the forced rendering of services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of human organs, tissues or body parts; shall be committing the crime of human trafficking (Art. 2).

Chapter III details the protections accorded to victims of human trafficking.

Chapter IV covers international judicial cooperation

Chapter V defines the different penalties for committing the crime of human trafficking as defined in Art. 2.

Art. 25 exempts victims of human trafficking from penalties prescribed by Law No. 4 of 2009 on the Regulation of the Entry, Departure, Residence and Sponsorship of Expatriates.