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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery Republic
of Georgia [ Country-by-Country
Reports ] The Georgia is a source and transit country for women and girls
trafficked primarily to Turkey and the U.A.E. for the purpose of commercial
sexual exploitation. Women and girls from Ukraine, Moldova, Russia, and other
former Soviet states are trafficked through Georgia to Turkey, Greece, the
U.A.E., and Western Europe. Men are trafficked for the purpose of forced
labor; victims are trafficked for the purpose of forced labor in the
breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking
in Persons Report, June, 2007 [full country
report] |
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want to continue my studies and become a doctor," said Sevil Allazkyzy.
Small and fragile with a childlike body, Sevil is only 11 years old, and all
her grades are excellent. She is the best student in the seventh form of the
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Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Trafficking of children occurs, and thousands of children living in
the streets and in orphanages are vulnerable to trafficking. CURRENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - The Anti-TIP Unit of the Illegal Detention and
Trafficking Division of the Organized Crime in the Ministry of Interior
acquired a new office in 2004. The
anti-TIP unit is allocated sufficient resources for its operations and has
successfully investigated and made arrests in several trafficking
cases. The Government provides protection and assistance to victims
discovered in the course of police raids or investigations by referring the
victims to government agencies and NGOs.
The Government of Georgia is a member of the Black Sea Economic
Cooperation and cooperates with other members to combat organized crime,
including criminal activities concerning trafficking in human beings and
sexual exploitation of women and children. Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – In
January the new ATIM arrested Georgian members of an international
trafficking operation, involving Traffickers were largely freelance
domestic operators with connections abroad, as well as some small
international operations. Traffickers often used offers of
employment from friends and families to lure potential victims. Overseas jobs
offered through tourism firms or employment agencies were also methods, but during
the year it did not appear that employment agencies were aware that they were
fronting for traffickers. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2003 [62] The Committee notes that the
human rights treaty bodies which considered the reports of Government
forms council in fight against human trafficking The Georgian government has
stepped up efforts in protecting the victims of human trafficking by setting
up a coordinating council which will monitor and facilitate anti-trafficking
strategy development, and provide rehabilitation and assistance to
trafficking victims. I do not want to get married. I
want to continue my studies and become a doctor," said Sevil Allazkyzy.
Small and fragile with a childlike body, Sevil is only 11 years old, and all
her grades are excellent. She is the best student in the seventh form of the
school in the The
Protection Project - Georgia [DOC] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - In 2001, the International
Organization for Migration (IOM) interviewed 121 Georgian victims of
trafficking, mostly women, who had been sent abroad and forced into
prostitution, domestic servitude, agricultural work, or construction work. Of
these trafficking victims, 60 percent were under 30 years old. Seventy-four
percent received false information on jobs abroad through a tourism firm or
employment agency, and 93.5 percent indicated that they had no idea that they
would or could be subject to sexual exploitation. Ninety-six percent of
trafficked migrants indicated that their recruiter had lied about the nature
of the job they would do abroad, and that the reality was much worse than
what they had been promised. Women were promised jobs as au pairs, fashion
models, designers, bar and restaurant workers, and shop assistants. Almost
half of the respondents interviewed for the survey were forced to work in
nightclubs, in strip bars, or in prostitution. The United States and Turkey
were the two primary destinations for forced prostitution, followed by the
Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Cyprus, and Switzerland
(in that order). Women trafficked to Greece, the United States, France,
Turkey, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom were also lured with promises
of good jobs as housekeepers and nannies, but instead they found themselves
forced into domestic servitude. Freedom
House Country Report - Political Rights: 3 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Partly Free Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide Stop
Violence Against Women – Country Page U.S. Library of Congress
- Country Study OSCE
Mission Helps Georgia Develop National Action Plan to Combat Human
Trafficking The OSCE Mission to Georgia is
boosting the country's fight against human trafficking by helping the
government develop an Action Plan, which is set for completion at a
conference starting today. Key
ministry officials and heads of anti-trafficking agencies will draft an
updated version of the Action Plan at the two-day event, supported by the
Mission and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions
and Human Rights. The
State Can Not Protect Georgians from Trafficking On March 11 a Russian citizen
Vladimir Yepishin was released from Pankisi gorge being detained there since
1999. According to his words, Chechens were forcing him to work for them
without any wage as a herdsman. He said he was brought to Pankisi from
Chechnya, where he was trafficked in 1998. The released claims there are
still several Russians suffering from exploitation by Chechens in the gorge. Georgian victims of trafficking
often say that force has been used against them. Quite often they were
threatened with death too. Therefore it becomes clear why it is so hard to
escape slavery and exploitation in hands of the traffickers. One young girl,
victim of the trafficking says that she was involved in trafficking under the
threats and intimidation. Story
of a Georgian Victim of Trafficking They put me in such conditions
that I could not refuse their proposal. They were sending me people who
delicately and gradually enticed me to the prostitution. But I preferred to
return back to Georgia rather accepting this. But they intimidated me, saying
that they would offend my family and they would never find jobs if I refuse.
They also told me that they'll beat my family members, or poison them and me
with gas and that I simply do not have any other choice. All material used herein
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