The Iraqi Government has made notable progress in its fight against human trafficking through the accession to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) in March 2008, and to its supplementing Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants Protocols in February 2009, as well as through the adoption of Anti-Trafficking Law No. 28 in 2012, and the establishment of an interministerial committee responsible for coordinating anti-human trafficking efforts in the country. Still, Iraq remains a source and destination country for men, women and children subjected to sexual and labour exploitation.
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