OSCE-backed project to help Georgian agencies combat human trafficking
During his speech, Darakhvelidze also highlighted the importance of simulation-based trainings in human trafficking, thanked the OSCE for its support of the project and its “fruitful cooperation” with the Georgian Interior Ministry over the years. Photo: The Georgian Interior Ministry/Facebook.
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A new project designed to help Georgian agencies combat human trafficking and supported by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe was launched on Friday.
The project, entitled Combating Trafficking in Human Beings: Sustaining Multi-Agency Collaboration through National Simulation Based Training Exercises, aims to facilitate the introduction of simulation-based training exercises on trafficking in Georgia.
The exercise will enable agencies involved in combatting trafficking to “effectively detect and investigate” cases of human trafficking for the purpose of labour and sexual exploitation, the state body noted.
Georgian Deputy Interior Minister Aleksandre Darakhvelidze noted challenges in the field in comments at the event, and highlighted the importance of simulation-based trainings in the work.
He also thanked the OSCE for its support of the project, and its “fruitful cooperation” with the Georgian Interior Ministry over the years.
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.
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.
For the first time Georgia has been named among a group of nations that best combat human trafficking and whose governments fully comply with the Torture Victims Protection Act (TVPA).
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 Government has maintained the “highest level” in combating human trafficking, the United States Department of State has said in its annual 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report, published on Tuesday.
Georgia’s Interior Ministry on Sunday said its professionals had arrested a foreign citizen on charges of human trafficking in Georgia’s western Zestaponi municipality.
The Georgian Government has maintained the “highest level” of performance in combating human trafficking, the United States Department of State has said in its annual 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report, published on Thursday.