INFORMING SCHOOLCHILDREN TRAFFICKING DANGERS

Panorama.am
13:42 17/02/2009

The first regional conference on "school education in Armenia,
Georgia and Azerbaijan how to prevent trafficking" took place today.

Ilona Ter-Minasyan, the head of the UN Office in Armenia said that the
regional project is funded by the Government of Switzerland and it
is implemented since November 2008. According to her the mission of
the project is to draft and spread educational materials raising the
knowledge of trafficking dangers and to inform pupils, their parents
and the teachers by preventing trafficking in Southern Caucasus.

The Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan who was attending
the conference said that trafficking has been much spoken within
the recent years by the international society and that people are
concerned about its dangers and aftermaths. One of the most important
things to prevent trafficking is to inform people, said Kocharyan.