Statistics, issued by the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (under the General Administration of Security), have revealed that the number of cases handled in the last year is 307, of which 272 cases professional. 20 of these files were transferred to the Attorney General while 40 victims and 37 accused were identified.
In this context, the online newspaper 'Al Ghad' reported that the statistics revealed that about 224 victims were welcomed, last year, the center Dignity and the Union of the Jordanian woman against 317 victims in 2017 For its part, the National Center for Human Rights mentioned in a recent report the importance of legislative and legal collaboration for an effective fight against trafficking in human beings, and explained that among the acts listed in the definition of the law against trafficking in human beings include kidnapping, forcible confinement and forcible prostitution which encourages justice to adopt human trafficking complaints to other clearer legal such as abuse, defamation, deprivation of liberty or other crimes.
The National Center for Human Rights has also warned of a major gap in prosecutions of those involved in human trafficking by explaining that officials of the Ministry of Labor's inspection directorate hotline received 64 complaints since the beginning of 2018; complaints from workers of different nationalities concerning violations of the Labor Code, wage delays and other overruns. Last year, the Center received six complaints from women workers who confirmed that they had been subjected to sequestration, confiscation of official documents and salary delays.
The report indicated that there are internationally recognized practices that include the elements of crime. However, these practices are not taken into account in Jordan and concern anyone who has founded, managed or financed an organized criminal group for the purpose of committing crimes of human trafficking, anyone who has founded, managed or used an electronic site dedicated to the crimes of trafficking in human beings or any person who has detained, concealed or possessed, without any legal justification, a passport or document of residence or identity of a victim of trafficking in human beings.