The Guardian: Mars, Nestlé and Hershey to face child slavery lawsuit in US
Chocolate companies are among the defendants named in a lawsuit brought by former child workers in Ivory Coast
Eight children who claim they were used as slave labour on cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast have launched legal action against the world’s biggest chocolate companies. They accuse the corporations of aiding and abetting the illegal enslavement of “thousands” of children on cocoa farms in their supply chains.
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Journalist students learn how to report on violence against women and domestic violence
Through a series of online lectures on reporting violence against women and domestic violence in December 2020, for a group of 80 journalist students from three leading universities of Armenia discussed issues such as what gender equality means and how to avoid stereotyping and discriminative language and advertisements.
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The procedure for identifying and directing children left out of compulsory education has been approved
The procedure for identifying and directing children left out of compulsory education was approved by the Government of the Republic of Armenia on February 11. The latter follows from the mandatory requirement of 12 years of general education.
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Sputnik Armenia: The government of Georgia will start issuing compensation to victims of human trafficking
The provision of a one-time state compensation will be a sufficient condition for granting a person the status of a victim.
Victims of trafficking will receive compensation at a time, regardless of whether a court is being held for damages in accordance with civil procedural legislation.
Sputnik Armenia: Trafficking organizer sought in Belgium found on Yerevan-Dubai flight
D. Gurdev was found during check-in for the Yerevan-Dubai flight and was detained, and immediately after that he was arrested.
The organizer of the international trafficking, who was wanted by the Belgian authorities, was detained at the Yerevan Zvartnots airport, the police press service reported.
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UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons for 2020
The 2020 UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons is the fifth of its kind mandated by the General Assembly through the 2010 United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons. It covers 148 countries and provides an overview of patterns and flows of trafficking in persons at global, regional and national levels, based primarily on trafficking cases detected between 2016 and 2019.
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MFA of RA: The RA candidate was elected a member of the Group of Experts on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA)
During the 27th meeting of the member states of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings in Strasbourg on December 4, Sergey Ghazinyan, Armenia’s candidate and Adviser to Human Rights Defender, was elected for a four-year term member of the Group of Experts on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA). The election of the representative of Armenia in this important expert group testifies to Armenia’s consistent efforts in the field of combating human trafficking.
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International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December
The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, marks the date of the adoption, by the General Assembly, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (resolution 317(IV) of 2 December 1949).
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CNN: The pandemic has created a second crisis in India — the rise of child trafficking
One evening in August, a 14-year-old boy snuck out of his home and boarded a private bus to travel from his village in Bihar to Jaipur, a chaotic, crowded and historical city 800 miles away in India’s Rajasthan state.
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