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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Georgia.htm
Georgia is a source
and transit country for women and girls trafficked within the country and to
Turkey, the UAE, Greece, Russia, Germany, and Austria 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, the UAE, and Western Europe. Men and women are trafficked within
Georgia for the purpose of forced labor. Men and women in the breakaway
regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which were outside of the government’s
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Sad Plight of Underage Brides Ramilya Alieva,
Institute for Womens Policy Research IWPR,
2005/06/02 www.kvali.com/kvali/index.asp?obiektivi=show&n=401 [accessed 6 February 2011] 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 Story of a Georgian Victim of Trafficking Source: an article, published in "Kviris Palitra" Newspaper
of May 7-13, 2001 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 5 September 2011] 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. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/georgia.htm [accessed 6 February 2011] 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. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61649.htm [accessed 6 February 2011] 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) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3
October 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/georgia2003.html [accessed 6 February 2011] [62] The Committee
notes that the human rights treaty bodies which considered the reports of Government forms council in fight against
human trafficking Source:
www.messenger.com.ge/issues/1181_august_25_2006/n_1181_1.htm [accessed 6 February 2011] 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. Sad Plight of Underage Brides Ramilya Alieva,
Institute for Womens Policy Research IWPR,
2005/06/02 www.kvali.com/kvali/index.asp?obiektivi=show&n=401 [accessed 6 February 2011] 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] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/georgia.doc [Last accessed 2009] 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: 4 Civil Liberties: 4 Status: Partly Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2009/georgia [accessed 26 June 2012] Human Rights
Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide www.hrw.org/europecentral-asia/georgia [accessed 6 February 2011] Stop Violence Against Women – Country Page The Advocates for Human Rights, October
2008 [accessed 6 February 2011] Library of Congress Call Number DK509 .A727
1995 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/getoc.html [accessed 6 February 2011] OSCE The Advocates for Human Rights, November
11, 2004 -- Source: OSCE Mission Helps Georgia Develop National Action Plan
to Combat Human Trafficking
[www.osce.org/news/show_news.php?ut=2&id=4521], Press Release, [accessed 6 February 2011] The OSCE Mission to
The State Can Not Protect Georgians from
Trafficking Salome Jashi,
Civil www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=1531 [accessed 6 February 2011] 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 Source: an article, published in "Kviris Palitra" Newspaper
of May 7-13, 2001 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 5 September 2011] 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
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