BE CAREFULE NOT TO BE ENTRAPPED INTO TRAFFICKING

Panorama.am
16:14 02/12/2008

"Armenia considers to be a trafficking born country. Girls and women
are taken to Turkey and Arabic United Emirates where they are entrapped
into prostitution," said Marina Solakhyan, the coordinator of Struggle
against Trafficking UNDP project. According to Solakhyan, there
exists another type of trafficking among us – working trafficking,
which main direction is in Russia.

One of the reasons of the trafficking is that in transitional countries
and in countries which lack stable economy people are looking for
ways to find good jobs, she said. According to her people don’t verify
the information they receive from their friends, neighbors, etc.

In order to escape from such situation, M. Solakhyan said that a
job found abroad should be well verified, a written contract or at
least written agreement should be made, and the legislation of certain
country should be studied. It is important to make copies of documents
and to leave one example with relatives, as when abroad in case of
trafficking people are taken off their documents just from the airport.