Partnerships & Agreement

         

 

 Main regional and international trafficking-related instruments to which the Kingdom is party:

 

1- The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2000

Acceded to by Royal Decree (M/20), dated 13 May, 2004

 

2- Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2000.

Acceded to by Royal Decree (M/56), dated 26 June, 2007

 

3- Arab Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the Arab Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

Acceded to by Royal Decree (M/26), dated 30 October, 2019

 

4- Convention on the Rights of the Child

Acceded to by Royal Decree (M/7), dated 12 September, 1995

 

 5- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

Acceded to by Royal Decree (M/38), dated 30 June, 2010

 

6- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women signed and ratified by Royal Decree (M/25), dated 28 August, 2000

 

7- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Acceded to by Royal Decree (M/28), dated 27 May, 2008

 

8- Forced Labor Convention Acceded to by Royal Decree (M/15), dated 20 February, 1978

 

 9- Abolition of Forced Labor Convention Acceded to by Royal Decree (M/15), dated 20 February, 1978

 

10- Memorandum of Understanding for Cooperation in Combatting Trafficking in Persons with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime By Council of Ministers’ Resolution (262), dated 3 December, 2019

11- Agreement between the Human Rights Commission and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Strengthening Mechanisms to Combat Human Trafficking

in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Phase I

Dated 23 December, 2019