DUSHANBE, August 10, 2010, Asia-Plus – Agency of the USA on the international development (USAID) will allocate to Tajikistan within the next three years more than $1,1 million for struggle against the human traffic.
The traffic of people remains an actual problem for RТ. For last five years in Tajikistan there were assistance in repatriation, rehabilitation and reintegration to more than 250 victims of the traffic. The head of the interdepartmental commission of struggle against human traffic at government RT Abdusattor Rajabov has informed about it at press conference on August 10.
With support of Embassy of the USA in Tajikistan and International Organization For Migration the national center of training for preparation of the qualified experts in sphere of struggle against trade with people is under construction.
At press conference also it has been noticed that with support of mission МОМ in Tajikistan two specialized orphanages for victims of human traffic are opened: one in Dushanbe – for adults and in Khujand – for children.
According to the deputy minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic Sharif Nazarov, at this moment 10 men have been searching, suspected of participation in the human traffic, and in the first half-year of this year in investigation were five criminal cases of the given category. Deputy chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has underlined that the crimes connected with human traffic, are made by the organized criminal groups, having transnational communications.
Nazarov also has informed that in the first half-year of this year from the United Arab Emirates there were returned home four citizens of Tajikistan who in accordance with the circumstances have appeared victims of human traffic.
As he said, the basic countries where dealers of people send the victims till now are the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Iran. As transit zones of sending Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Russia.
