Child includes provisions to protect children from falling victims to this organized crime as a result any form of exploitation. 5.5 The NIHR believes that, despite the fact that Law No. (1) of 2008 on Combating Trafficking in Persons has introduced provisions criminalizing trafficking in persons, it has overlooked to provide definitions of the terms stated therein, in order to disambiguate the terms, for example: "Sexual Exploitation Practices, practices similar to slavery, and criminal groups" along the lines of comparable legislation in some Arab countries. 5.6 In addition, the Law, in demonstrating the cases of aggravated punishment for the crime of trafficking in Persons by a criminal group, does not explain the concept of this group, the significant number of the members of this group, whether it conducts its criminal activity within the territorial borders of the Kingdom or abroad, and the means of exercising its activities, such as managing of commercial activity to hide the crime, or administration of websites. Moreover, in enumerating the cases of aggravated punishment, the Law does not state the case in which a victim is the spouse of the offender, a child, or a person with disability and does not mention the scope of the application of its provisions. In addition, the Law does not independently address the mandate or jurisdiction for its application; taking the circumstances surrounding the crime into account. 5.7 With regard to efforts made to combat the crime of trafficking in persons, the NIHR considers that the National Committee to Combat Trafficking in Persons established under Article No. (8) of the Law, is a Parallel Report by the National Institution for Human Rights of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the Human Rights Committee © 2018 36

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