Societies To Unite Efforts To Fight Visa Trading Business

President of the Board of Directors of the Transparency Society, Majed Al-Mutairi, announced that 10 public service societies are collaborating under a campaign titled ‘I am responsible’, to encourage all citizens and expats to report visa traders, reports AlSeyassah daily.

The campaign also aims to uphold justice and the rule of law and apply pressure on officials to take positive decisions to tackle corruption that has been allowed fester for a long time, which has lead to expats being swindled and irregular demographics. Requests have been given to Kuwait officials to amend the current legislation to end exploitation, and support workers rights and employers according to constitutional and humanitarian principles and international treaties.

In a press statement Al-Mutairi said the campaign believes in the role civil organizations can play in combating visa trading, a human trafficking crime that is forbidden around the world and which has harmed the reputation of Kuwait.

Human exploitation has also had an impact on the state’s health efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and caused a major imbalance in the demographics over three decades, and has produced many security, social and economic problems in the labor market, Al-Mutairi added.

He also said the campaign is part of societal responsibility to tackle corruption, human trafficking, and bribery. He added the campaign has launched an online website to report visa traders and called on citizens, expatriates and all those who were exploited to exercise their humanitarian role and report this crime.

He pointed out that the societies participating in the campaign are the Kuwaiti Transparency Society, the Kuwaiti Economists Association, the Kuwait Society for the Protection of Public Funds, the Kuwaiti Society for Human Rights, the Kuwait Lawyers Association, the Accountants and Auditors Association, the Public Relations Association, the Women’s Social Cultural Association, the Society of Engineers, and the Kuwaiti Sociology Association.

 

SOURCE : TIIMESKUWAIT

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