For two days Aghveran became a center of Armenia’s European integration process discussions. Friedrich-Ebert Foundation and Yerevan Press Club organized a training-discussion over “Armenia’s integration process among modern geopolitical context” topic. Read More
On the 18th of March World Vision international charitable organization’s Armenian branch organized a round-table discussion over «Children in media: existing problems and solution mechanisms» issue. Read More
This year’s U.S. State Department human trafficking report was not watered down because of concerns about how it might affect trade deals or diplomatic relations, writes Reuters, citing on State Department officials. Read More
The phenomenon of human trafficking, the exploitation of one human by another, takes place across the globe and predominately targets women and children, writes an NIHR Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Oxford University Department of Psychiatry and a consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry in the department of Children’s Psychological Medicine at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Mina Fazel, who presented recently a research “Characteristics of trafficked adults and children with severe mental illness: a historical cohort study” to the #AntiSlaveryDay (This Day falls on 18th of October in UK as another opportunity to host events aimed at drawing attention to the issues of human trafficking and slavery). Read More
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a message on the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on marked on July 30, writes Panorama.am citing UN Office in Armenia.
Once more Armenia has been categorized in the 1 Tier of countries combating with human trafficking by U.S. Department of States’ annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Read More
Today, Secretary of State John Kerry will release the 2015 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report at the U.S. Department of State, writes U.S. Department of States web-site. Read More
The arrival of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in neighboring Jordan has increased unemployment in areas in which they are highly concentrated, and further strained the host country’s infrastructure, resources and public services. Read More
Governments across Europe need to step up their efforts to identify child victims of human trafficking and provide them with the support they are legally entitled to, writes Council of Europe, Read More
Report for the 1st half-year of 2014 can be found in the Section Reports – Reports of Audio-Visual NGO.