Georgia among countries with fewest cases of child trafficking
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Georgia is among several countries taking steps to improve anti-trafficking legislation, policy and practice according to today’s report of the Council of Europe’s (CoE) anti-trafficking expert group (GRETA).
GRETA said "Georgia has changed its legislation to provide for social and legal assistance to child victims of trafficking and temporary residence permits, as well as setting up a unified trafficking database”.
- social and legal assistance to child victims of trafficking and their rehabilitation is being exercised;
- temporary residence permits to victims of human trafficking, both on the grounds of their co-operation in criminal proceedings and for humanitarian reasons are being granted;
- a unified database has been set up containing information on victims of human trafficking, as well as offenders.
Based on the report 4,361 children were identified as victims of trafficking in 12 European countries between 2012 and 2015 including Georgia with the lowest amount - four cases of child trafficking.
With its multidisciplinary mobile street teams to make contact with children living and working in streets, day-care centres, 24-hour crisis intervention centres and transitional centres to prepare children for long-term care, GRETA said Georgia is making steps forward to improve the situation with child trafficking.
The Council of Europe’s (CoE) anti-trafficking expert group (GRETA) has today revealed its second evaluation report, which states Georgia has made vast progress to reduce illegal human trafficking.
The Georgian court has sentenced a Kyrgyzstani citizen to 14 years in jail after she was found guilty of human trafficking.
The Georgian Government is actively working to prevent human trafficking in Georgia as a US report states Georgia is "a source, transit and destination country for men, women and children subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically the forced prostitution of women and the forced labour of men, women and children”.
Georgian Public Defender Ucha Nanuashvili has released his 2016 report on human rights protection in Georgia today.
Georgia has been ranked among Tier 1 nations in the Trafficking in Persons Report 2017; an annual report issued by the United States (US) State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.
The US Department of State reads in its 2018 Trafficking in Persons Report that the government of Georgia fully meets the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.
European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse is being marked in Tbilisi today. Georgia joined the European Convention on the protection of children against sexual exploitation and sexual abuse in 2015.
A Ukrainian woman has been arrested for child trafficking in Georgia, announces the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia.
A criminal group involving 11 individuals have been identified and detained on charges of children trafficking and making child pornography in a joint operation of Georgian, US, Australian law enforcers and Europol. One American and one Australian citizen are among the detainees, while others are citizens of Georgia, including the parents and relatives of the affected children.
The Council of Europe’s (СoE) anti-human trafficking monitoring body (GRETA) has released its third evaluation report on Georgia today, which acknowledged the country’s efforts in fighting human trafficking and identified areas for improvement.
The Georgian government has maintained the highest level of fighting trafficking, the US Department of State said in its 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report. The report says that the government of Georgia managed to demonstrate sustainable efforts considering the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on its anti-trafficking capacity.
Challenges, achievements and the current situation in combatting human trafficking in Georgia were in focus of a meeting hosted in Tbilisi between prosecutors, judges and investigators working on trafficking issues, the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia said on Thursday.