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    Armenia "source" of human trafficking - US State Department

    Arminfo
    6 Jun 05


    Yerevan, 6 June: The US State Department has included Armenia on a
    watch list of countries in its annual human trafficking report.

    "Armenia is more like a source of trafficking rather than a transit
    country," the document says. According to the document, Armenian women
    and girls are sent for sex exploitation mainly to Turkey and the UAE,
    and according to some information, to European countries. According to
    UN information, more than a 1,000 women are engaged in prostitution in
    the UAE and Turkey, most of them being victims of
    trafficking. According to the State Department report, although the
    Armenian authorities are making efforts to fight this phenomenon, they
    are not achieving a proper result. Armenia was included on the watch
    list of countries because last year it could not prove that it has
    increased its efforts in the fight against this phenomenon, the
    document says.

    [Passage omitted: the Armenian Criminal Code envisages punishment for
    human trafficking]

    The report also notes that some officials' involvement in this
    phenomenon hinders the appropriate fight against it. Specifically, the
    report notes that some prosecutors illegally help people engaged in
    trafficking while officers of the border service take bribes and
    simplify procedures for crossing the border. The Armenian authorities
    have proved incapable of investigating these cases and punishing the
    culprits, the document says.
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