{"id":22916,"date":"2015-07-29T05:57:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T05:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am?p=22916"},"modified":"2015-08-04T21:42:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T21:42:39","slug":"%d5%b0%d5%a1%d5%b5%d5%a1%d5%bd%d5%bf%d5%a1%d5%b6%d5%a8-%d5%b6%d5%a5%d6%80%d5%a1%d5%bc%d5%be%d5%a5%d5%ac-%d5%a7-%d5%a9%d6%80%d5%a1%d6%86%d5%ab%d6%84%d5%ab%d5%b6%d5%a3%d5%ab-%d5%a4%d5%a5%d5%b4-%d5%a1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/%d5%b0%d5%a1%d5%b5%d5%a1%d5%bd%d5%bf%d5%a1%d5%b6%d5%a8-%d5%b6%d5%a5%d6%80%d5%a1%d5%bc%d5%be%d5%a5%d5%ac-%d5%a7-%d5%a9%d6%80%d5%a1%d6%86%d5%ab%d6%84%d5%ab%d5%b6%d5%a3%d5%ab-%d5%a4%d5%a5%d5%b4-%d5%a1\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia continued robust trafficking prevention efforts: 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/trafiking1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Only 31 countries, including Armenia, got Tier I status in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/documents\/organization\/245365.pdf\">2015 Trafficking in Persons Report<\/a> released \u00a0by Secretary of State John Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Armenia is a source and, to a lesser extent, destination country for men, women, and children subjected to sex and labor trafficking, the report reads. The government continued robust trafficking prevention efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c The Government of Armenia fully complies with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. In 2014, Parliament approved a law establishing standard procedures for the identification, support, protection, and reintegration of suspected and identified trafficking victims across national and local government bodies, NGOs, international organizations, and civil society.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The government, however, continued to lack formal victim-witness protection, and fewer victims were identified. Police successfully identified foreign victims subjected to trafficking in<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Armenia and referred them to care. The government maintained strong collaborative working ties with anti-trafficking NGOs, local media, donor organizations, and regional partners. Courts convicted fewer traffickers,\u201d the report reads.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more \u00a0 about Armenia in Report \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/photos.state.gov\/libraries\/armenia\/231771\/PDFs\/tip2015.pdf\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you know?<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The proportion of children among the detected victims is increasing: one in three is a child; most of them are girls &#8211; two out of every three children trafficked are girls.<\/li>\n<li>Women and girls make up 70 per cent of detected trafficking victims worldwide<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/cc2015_human_trafficking_victims.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, published by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in November 2014, found victims from 152 nationalities in 124 countries &#8211; this is most likely the visible tip of a very large iceberg<\/li>\n<li>146 countries and territories have enacted legislation criminalizing all aspects of trafficking; 18 have partial legislation; 9 countries have no legislation against human trafficking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/cc2015_human_trafficking_children.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Child trafficking is a major concern in some regions &#8211; in Africa and the Middle East children constitute 62 per cent of detected victims.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unodc.org\/documents\/data-and-analysis\/glotip\/GLOTIP_2014_full_report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2014<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"newstxt\">Only 31 countries, including Armenia, got Tier I status in the 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report released \u00a0by Secretary of State John Kerry. &nbsp; Armenia is a source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,162,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-99","category-162","category-125"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}