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US Department of State Announces the 2010 Trafficking in Persons Report

17 June 2010 14:16 (UTC +04:00)

The report reads that Azerbaijani government allocated victims of human trafficking $ 625 000 aid. Azerbaijan passed different decisions for the purpose of achievement development in this sphere and took successful steps in the realization of these.
Works done in the sphere of application of the law on â€œStruggle against human traffickingâ€ adopted in 2005 highly assessed. The Government of Azerbaijan does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so. Despite these overall efforts, the government demonstrated exceptionally inadequate efforts to identify and assist a significant number of victims of forced labor and did not show evidence of progress in investigating, prosecuting, convicting, and punishing complicit officials.
The government demonstrated some trafficking prevention efforts during the reporting period, largely through public awareness measures. The government conducted anti-trafficking seminars in 58 cities and regions throughout the country, targeted primarily at students and government employees. The government continued its general trafficking-awareness campaign, advertising on television and on the radio. It continued to fund an NGO-operated trafficking hotline that served to provide information to the public and identify potential victims of trafficking. The government did not, however, conduct a public awareness campaign to reduce the demand for commercial sex acts. The government formed partnerships with some anti-trafficking NGOs, however it avoided cooperation with NGOs critical of the governmentâ€™s efforts to combat human trafficking.