21.05.2024

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This reference has been compiled subject to for the purposes of the implementation
of Article 7.5 of the Law ‘On Combatting Trafficking in Humans’ of the Republic of
Azerbaijan and subject to the implementation of the relevant sections of the National
Action Plan and the monitoring results, analyses and recommendations of the General
Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan, international organisations, the Office of
the Ombudsman, 32 central and 68 local executive authorities as well as the subdivisions of
the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The criminogenic situation in the field of human trafficking was controlled also in
2023 what with such crimes remaining a serious threat to international security, armed
conflicts’ geography expanding in most countries of the world, the demand for cheap
labour raising and so forth. The preventive work, criminal prosecution, victim protection,
cooperation and partnership were continued purposefully in consideration of those factors.
It follows from the latest Global Report by the United Nations released in January
2023 and encompassing 141 countries that as new forms of abuse emerged, men accounted
for the largest proportion of victims, their numbers having increased by about three
percent compared to previous years, as well as that female victims of physical violence
suffered three times more than men, and children did twice as often as adults did.
At the same time, it is clear from the information released by international
organisations that only 42% of male victims and 23% of female victims were identified in
2020; 0.7% of them had been made to beg, 0.9% subjected to forced marriages, 10.2%
involved in criminal activities, 38% subjected to sexploitation and 39% to forced labour,
and 10.3% were exploited otherwise.
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The climate change, a global issue that concerns all, too, has caused the human
trafficking risks to double and become a source of hazard for women and children from the
vulnerable sections of the society.
As many as 23.7 mn people became internally displaced due to natural disasters in
2021; many left their countries fleeing food shortages and poverty caused by the changing
climate; all that gave rise to uncontrolled migration flows to increase.
In the Republic of Azerbaijan, where the said processes were followed and analysed,
continued the tenacious action in defence of the individual and public interest in line with
the National Action Plan to avert human trafficking risks in a timely manner during the
reporting year.
With the task of improving the regulatory legal framework and institutional
mechanisms of the action against the trafficking in humans being held in focus, the
following amendments were made to one Decree of the President and one Resolution of the
Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2023:
- the list of the executive authorities encompassed by the National Action Plan
against Trafficking in Humans in the Republic of Azerbaijan for the years 2020–2024 was
concretised and some subparagraphs were harmonised with the regulatory instruments in
force;
- The establishment of a Centre for assistance to victims of human trafficking,
provision of victims of human trafficking with medicines in a special institution, provision
of urgent medical and psychological assistance were attributed to the functions of the
Administrative Association for Territorial Medical Unit in accordance with the Rules of
Establishing, Financing and Operating the Special Institutions for Victims of Trafficking in
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Humans, for of Controlling the Operation of Such Special Institutions;
- The Resolution No 158 of the Cabinet of Ministers dated 16 May 2023 affirmed
the Make-Up, Organisation and Operating Procedure of the Working Group under the
auspices of the National Co-ordinator of the Action against Trafficking in Humans.
Our country subscribed to the Council of Europe Convention on Action against
Trafficking in Human Beings and adopted the Regulations of the Hot Line serving actual,
probable and potential victims of human trafficking crimes and the Regulations of the
Shelter for the Temporary Residence of Victims of Trafficking in Humans.
Last year, relevant amendments were made to the Labour and Family Codes as well
as the Code of Criminal Procedure and Criminal Code as well as to the laws ‘On the
Child’s Rights’, ‘On the Bar and the Bar Practice’, ‘On Education’, ‘On the State
Dactyloscopic and Genome Registration in the Republic of Azerbaijan’ and so forth, all in
connexion with the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection
of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse.
Thus, certain crimes against individual sexual immunity and sexual freedom (rape
and violent acts of sexual nature) committed against minors was classified as an aggravating
circumstance and penalties were graver regarding several offences constituting in
sexploitation of children.
Involvement of minors in activities contradicting the public morality, too, was
classified as corpus delicti (Article 171) and stipulations provisions providing for criminal
liability for harassment of children for sexual purposes were added to the legislation (Article
171-2).
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In addition, those suspected or charged with crimes constituting in sexploitation or
sexual violence against children, or those convicted for such crimes were added to the pool
of the people obliged to ass the compulsory state genome registration.
A decree was passed to define the rules for the repatriation and rehabilitation of
underage Azerbaijani citizens found to be in difficult conditions in a foreign country whilst
unaccompanied by their parents or other legal representatives. Also, the Cabinet of
Ministers adopted a resolution defining the duties of the relevant state authorities
concerning provision of children’s access to education as well as social, medical and
psychological services in emergencies, at the time of a pandemic and similar emergency
situations.
The following were also in the focus: compiling and distributing methodical guides
and awareness materials on preventing trafficking in humans, fostering social intolerance
of the cases giving rise to such crimes and involving societal institutions and mass media in
this action.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs sent 14,000 enlightenment booklets and fliers to
our citizens travelling abroad for work and to overseas nationals en transit in the country
or coming to it. The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population had the
booklet ‘Don’t Become a Human Trafficking Victim’ booklet (3,000 copies) and the State
Family, Women’s and Children’s Problems Committee had printed and distributed to
citizens and participants of the relevant enlightenment events the 1,000 booklets ‘The
Action against Trafficking in Humans’.
The Public Health and Reforms Centre of the Ministry of Health had the
methodical guide ‘The Problem of Trafficking in Humans and its Prevention’ compiled
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whereas the newly founded ‘Healthy Child’ internet portal had 583 articles and 331
enlightenment printed and video materials uploaded to it to cover the issue further.
The Office of the Commissioner (Ombudsman) for the Human Rights awareness
guide ‘The Defence of the Child’s Rights in the Ombudsman’s Work’ and the e-book ‘The
Convention on the Rights of the Child’, translated to the sign language; both were
presented to the public. Besides, the Ombudsman’s Office organised meetings with
children to inform them of the nature, types and danger of the human trafficking crimes,
prevention of such crimes, the use of child labour and its consequences.
The cases conducing to crimes consisting in trafficking in humans and forced labour
were spread across the media. Personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs gave 25
interviews on this topic to TV channels.
The Audiovisual Council organised debates on the action against trafficking in
humans on various TV channels; extensive information about the consequences of
trafficking in humans was spread to the public.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs uploaded 48 information pieces about the
countering of the aforementioned crimes at the ministerial Chief Office against Trafficking
in Humans (www.insanalveri.gov.az) whilst together with the Ministry of Science and
Education they undertook awareness activities at 41 secondary vocational education
institutions in towns and provinces. The personnel of 29 provinces’ law enforcement
authorities as well as youth, media representatives, officials of executive authorities,
members of the public, medics, local entrepreneurs, employees of the transport, education,
social defence and employment centres as well as representatives of nongovernmental
organisations took art in those sessions.
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The Ministry of Science and Education organised meetings, demonstration lessons
and round table sessions at schools where pupils belonging to the risk group were
identified and then provided with the required psychological support and educated about
early marriages.
The State Family, Women’s and Children’s Problems Committee combined with
the Ministry of Science and Education to organise awareness meetings to Trafficking in
Humans and Forced Labour’ and meetings about employment, demonstrating videoclips
and handing out methodology guides to the attendants at the Industries and Technology
College of the State Oil and Industries University of Azerbaijan and at the Arts College of
the Academy of Art of Azerbaijan.
The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population organised
enlightenment meetings and events at the regional ASAN and DOST Service Centres in
Baku, Sumgait, Ganja, Tovuz, Balakyan, Agjabedi, Kurdamir, Nakhchivan, Salyan and
Sabirabad.
The Ministry of Culture organised more than 100 awareness events in total in the
Baku, Absheron-Khizi, Ganja-Dashkesan, Highland Shirvan, Lenkoran-Astara, Central
Aran, Mil-Mugan, Garabagh, Gazakh-Tovuz, Guba-Khachmaz, Sheki-Zagatala, East
Zangazur and Shirvan-Salyan regions.
A topical education and training campaign was initiated to enhance the relevant
knowledgeability of the specialist state authorities’ staff. Senior officers of 38 town and
provincial police units as well as 249 rank officers of the police units of 67 towns and
provinces of the country were put on the ‘The Main Areas and Regulatory Framework of
the Action against the Trafficking in Humans’ advanced training course. Furthermore,
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1,650 officers of more than 78 police units attended the virtual training classes ‘The
Trafficking in Humans and Forced Labour Crimes – a Kind of Transnational Organised
Crimes’, ‘Differentiating between the Human Trafficking Crimes and Crimes against the
Public Morality’ and ‘Apprehension and Prevention of the Human Trafficking and Forced
Labour Crimes’.
Besides, the consular personnel of our country’s diplomatic missions regularly
attended the training programmes that covered various aspects of human trafficking,
exploitation of children and victims’ exposure to violence and involvement in forced
labour. They were also supplied with the relevant publications.
The Ministry of Science and Education, the State Tourism Agency and the State
Migration Service combined to conduct training sessions ‘Victims of Trafficking in
Humans’, ‘Human Trafficking and Smuggling Protocols’, ‘Azerbaijan’s International
Obligations in the Field of Countering Trafficking in Humans’, ‘The Struggle against
Trafficking in Humans and Forced Labour’, ‘The Action against Trafficking in Humans
and the Identifying Indicators of the Victims’ for 206 general secondary school
psychologists, 30 tour operators, representatives of 20 hotels and travel agencies as well as
personnel of the migration authorities.
The State Family, Women’s and Children’s Problems Committee conducted the
training sessions ‘Preventing Child Labour’ and ‘Detecting Children Victimised by
Trafficking in Humans’ for its employees. The State Border Service undertook a course
‘Identifying Human Trafficking Victims Including Victims’ for its specialist military
personnel. The State Agency for Public Services and Social Innovations arranged the
training for more than 50 volunteers of the ASAN Service centres covering the topics of the
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essence and forms of the trafficking in humans, the methods for identifying the victims,
and first and services to the potential victims.
Events of the same nature were also organised for clerics, representatives of the
diaspora abroad and the staff of the electronic security service. Meanwhile, the Special
Police Force personnel participated in the same sessions as lecturers.
As many as 75 judges attended the ‘Adjudication of Trafficking in Humans and
Related Criminal Cases’ and 71 barristers participated in the ‘A Professional Outlook on
the Defence of the Rights of the Human Trafficking Victims’ at the Academy of Justice.
The courses attended by more than 400 candidate employees of the justice, judicial
and prosecution authorities and members of the Bar Collegium covered the following
subjects: ‘International Legislation in Countering Trafficking in Humans (the European
legislation), ‘The Action against Trafficking in Humans’, ‘The Public Hazard of the Human
Trafficking Crimes; Domestic Violence and Countering It', ‘Human Trafficking and
Related Crimes and the Specificity of their Adjudication in Courts of Law’ and
‘Countering the Cybercrime of Sexual Exploitation of Children’.
The control of births outside of maternity homes and the action to identify early
marriages by detecting such births were kept in the focus in line with the National Action
Plan; 293 early marriages were curbed in this way during the reporting year.
The ‘Mobile Population’ application, commissioned as a subsystem of the ‘Mobile
Notary Office’ application, made it possible to register electronically births and deaths of
citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan both in the country and abroad as well as to issue
familial status and household member related certificates online during the reporting year.
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At the same time, the ‘Emergency Electronic Call to the Ministry of Justice’, a
service installed at the Heydar Aliyev International Airport and the DOST as well as
ASAN Service Centres in Baku made it possible for citizens to have births registered
without having to go to the registrar’s offices.
The number of registration departments putting newborns on record in the field,
that is, at health care institutions, rose in 2023; as many as 4,746 child births registrations
were formalised that year, including the 427 theretofore unregistered births from earlier
years.
Graduates of the state childcare institutions were provided with socio-legal and
socio-psychological aid and assisted in finding employment; those activities were continued
so as to mitigate the risk of those graduates falling prey to trafficking in humans. The State
Employment Agency conducted the seminars ‘Career planning and choosing a profession
the right way’ seminars and individual consultations in the format of the ‘To the Future
Together’ project for 290 children with health complications and derived of parental care.
Also, the State Employment Agency engaged 6 graduates of childcare institutions in
vocational training and put a further 2 graduates in the self-employment programme.
The Ministry of Science and Education requested target funds (under consideration
currently) to buy flats with for 10 young graduates of childcare institutions whereas the
Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population conducted the monitoring of
the living conditions of 23 children – citizens of Azerbaijan – out of the total adopted by
1,146 overseas nationals in Azerbaijan. The State Family, Women’s and Children’s
Problems Committee, in turn, undertook 56 monitoring sessions of children under
guardianship and care in various families and 68 monitoring sessions of education evasion
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cases.
The police authorities organised legal, psychological and other kinds of aid to 132
waifs and other children left without parental or paedagogical influence for assorted
reasons at the Child’s Rights Clinic and the Social Rehabilitation Centre for Children and
Youth.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs rewarded the 18 NGO representatives who had
distinguished themselves in the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding
signed with the Coalition of Non-Governmental Organisations against Trafficking in
Humans with money (AZN 23,000 in total) and diplomas whilst the State Agency for the
Support to Non-Governmental Organisations of the Republic of Azerbaijan financed their
submitted 11 projects worth AZN 94,000 in the aggregate.
In addition, AZN 120,000 was allocated towards the costs of social rehabilitation of
victims of trafficking in humans, keeping them at the shelter and giving them lump-sum aid
allowances.
There was much focus last year on developing international co-operation in
combatting trafficking in humans and forced labour, exchange of experience and its
promptitude as well as maintaining the leading position of the country in this process.
Namely, there were meetings with representatives of the Azerbaijani offices of the
International Organisation for Migration and the International Centre for Migration Policy
Development, the Embassy of the United States of America in Azerbaijan, the internal
affairs authorities of the republics of Belarus and Bulgaria, the Council of Europe
Committee of the Parties – Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, the International
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Labour Organisation, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training and the
Working Group for the UN Convention on Action against Transnational Organised Crime.
The meetings were held physically as well as online. Furthermore, Also, answers were given
to the recommendations and queries of the US Departments of State, of Justice and of
Labour, and the Council of Europe Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in
Humans (GRETA) as well as other organisations.
Officers of the specialist police group were sent to Ankara, Vienna, Madrid, Lyons,
Minsk and Almaty within the frameworks of projects implemented by various
international organisations; those officers were posted there to learn the progressive
international experience of acting against trafficking in humans.
It should be noted that the endeavours of our country in legislation, criminal
prosecution, protection of the victims, financing of shelters and co-operation were lauded
in the report by the US Department of State on combatting trafficking in humans and
the 3rd assessment stage report by the GRETA of the implementation of the Council
of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Humans
The ‘Forced Labour and Forced Marriage’ 2022 report on the global valuation of the
spread of human trafficking crimes, drawn by the International Labour Organisation, the
International Organisation for Migration and the Walk free suggested that 27.6 million
people were forced to labour in 2021 and that 11.8 million of those were women and young
girls and 3.3 million ere children.
It followed from the estimates those organisations made that 1.3 million of the 17.3
million people subjected to forced labour in 2021 were children. In general, the number of
men (11.3 million) was twice as big as that of women (6 million). Of all those people, 5.5
million were labouring in services, 3 million in manufacturing, 2.6 million in construction,
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2.1 million in agriculture and 1.4 million in housework, whilst the rest were exploited in
other areas.
As many 60 sessions covering the issues of employee rights, prevention of forced
labour and trafficking in humans were held in Baku and the provinces of the country to
discourage forced labour in Azerbaijan; those were attended by more than 6,500 employers
and their representatives. The relevant materials were taken out in mass and social media
as well.
The Labour Relations Monitoring Centre of the State Agency for Public Services
and Social Innovations inspected 32 high-rises under construction and revealed the hire of
47 people without employment contracts; that find resulted in the administrative fines
totalling at AZN 123,000 levied on 13 employers.
The checks that the State Labour Inspection Service had undertaken in response to
citizens’ appeals found 512 (+143) cases of uncontracted employment resulting in the
aggregate fines of AZN 2,374,000 (+591.900) levied on the defaulting employers. Also, one
employee was found to be forced to do the work unrelated to the job description; the
concerned executive was brought to administrative accountability (fined) consequently.
The study of the incoming alerts revealed 2 cases of employment of persons aged
below 15, with the defaulting persons subjected to the appropriate administrative penalties.
Acting on the request of the State Migration Service, the Ministry of Labour and
Social Protection of the Population issued 5,441 overseas nationals with work permits and
extended the valid terms of the work permits held by 4,773 overseas nationals, all engaged
in paid work within the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The action taken, including the State Employment Agency of the Ministry of Labour
and Social Protection of the Population finding employment for 1,198 out of the 118,398
jobseekers and unemployed persons and, in accordance with the quota, for 2,751, too, and
putting 5,628 persons in paid public work, involving 17,362 persons in the self-employment
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programme, assigning the unemployment insurance payments for 8,370 persons more,
sending 9,518 to vocational training courses and giving professional advisory services to
281,529 persons reduced dramatically the citizens’ exposure to the risk of forced labour.
The operative search by the personnel of the Chief Office against Trafficking in
Humans of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the reporting year resulted in 2 criminal
cases initiated upon discovery of 3 cases of forced labour; it was determined that the
victims had been exploited in agriculture within the country.
The search for and identification of human trafficking and forced labour victims
revealed 8 migration channels and led to the detainment of 154 persons who were then
evicted from the country on administrative grounds.
The police raids of the period identified 342 minors condemned to living in the street
and involved in pauperism or illegal services; the 345 parents who had incited those minors
to the illegal activities were handled as prescribed by the law and, at the same time, the
commissions as well as the guardianship and patronage units functioning under the
auspices of the executive authorities were sullied with 504 files so they would provide those
children with care and aid as legally prescribed and solve their social problems.
The operative detection and search operations that the Special Police Unit
conducted in continuation of identification of human trafficking and forced labour victims
and the appropriate prosecution and indictment of the persons responsible for such cases
as gave rise to those abuse cases discovered 159 (+2) human trafficking and 3 (no changes)
forced labour facts as well as 44 (no changes) instances of document forgery with the
purpose of trafficking in humans.
As many as 16 (+2) criminal cases were initiated accordingly and 18 persons (+2, 15
women, 3 men) were brought in as defendants. As many as 11 (-2) criminal
cases (of the 3 years past) have been investigated already with 14 persons (-1, 11
women and 3 men) handed over to courts of law and 10 (-2) traffickers found guilty and
indicted.
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There were 21 (-2) suspects wanted locally: 17 (no changes) human trafficking
cases, 3 (+2) solicitation of prostitution cases and 1 (-2) for brothel running cases, and 9
(no changes) of them including 5 (+2) human trafficking suspects were detained and
transferred to the criminal prosecution authorities in the reporting year.
Besides, 12 (+1) persons suspected of trafficking in humans are currently sought
internationally via the channels of the Interpol. Information about the countries in which
those persons are hiding and other necessary details are collected continually; appropriate
extradition requests have been served in accordance with the pertaining bilateral and
multilateral mutual legal aid treaties in effect.
At the same time, 58 (+54) f a c t s w e r e f o un d t o h a v e b e e n c o m mi t t e d b y
m e a n s o f in f o r m a t i o n t e c h n o l o gi e s (the social media WhatsApp, Tik-tok,
İnstagram and Telegram), followed by 3 (+1) criminal cases opened under Article 144-1
(human trafficking) of the Criminal Code, and a further 2 (-1) criminal cases were initiated
with regards to 20 (+15) more facts under Article 243.1 (involvement in prostitution) of the
Criminal Code.
The 91 (-3) identified victims (90 women and 1 man) of the revealed human
trafficking and forced labour crimes were all citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan. 28 of
them had been subject to sexploitation in Turkiye, 28 in Russian Federation, 15 in the
United Arab Emirates, 10 in the Kingdom of Bahrain, 4 in the State of Qatar, 3 in the
Islamic Republic of Iran and in Iraq, and the remaining 2 had been subjected to forced
labour within the country.
6 of the victims were aged 18-25, 50 were aged 25-35 and 35 were older than 35; 24
were residents of the capital city and 67 had lived in the other towns and provinces of the
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republic; 74 had been subjected to exploitation during 2016-2022 and 17 during 2023.
The purposeful action to protect the human trafficking victims and to undertake the
relevant legal and socio-economic activities were in the focus as well. Each of 90 (-4)
victims were given the lump-sum allowance in the amount of AZN 700 w h i l s t 68 (-6)
others were put up at the appropriate shelter of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and provided
with medical (HIV, AIDS, gynaecological and therapeutic) as well as social, psychological, l e gal
a nd o th er kin ds of aid .
Specifically, 14 human trafficking victims were put on vocational training courses,
employment was found for 10 others, 2 victims who were overseas nationals were issued
with temporary abode permits, 8 others were assisted in obtaining IDs, 1 victim was helped
with the required surgical operation, 3 victims were provided with medical treatment and
11 were helped obtain addressed social aid.
A further 34 v i c t i m s w e r e r e t u r n e d t o t h e i r f a m i l i e s ; o n e
p e r s o n t h o u g h t a p o t e n t i a l h u m a n t r a f f i c k i n g v i c t i m w a s m o v e d
t o t h e S h e l t e r a n d S o c i a l R e h a b i l i t a t i o n I n s t i t u t i o n f o r
p e r s o n s f r o m t h e v u l n e r a b l e p o p u l a t i o n s e c t i o n s o f t h e S o c i a l
S e r v i c e s A g e n c y o f t h e M i n i s t r y o f Labour and Social Protection of the
Population.
Of the 67 human trafficking victims referred to nongovernmental organisations, 14
received the necessary aid at the shelters of The Clean World Women’s Aid Public
Association, 10 of The Children of Azerbaijan Public Association and 7 of The Contact
Regional Development Public Association whereas 16 received what aid they needed from
The Family World Legal Aid for Families and 20 from The 21st Century Women and The
Women’s Initiative and Assistance in Solving Women’s Social Problems.
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Of the 67 human trafficking victims referred to the Social Services Agency of the
Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population, 49 were aided psychologically
and 2 medically; 3 were placed on vocational training courses and 1 was forwarded to the
State Employment Agency for eventual employment.
As regards the 37 potential victims identified by individual alerts and singled out by
NGOs, 16, 7 and 1 of those were provided with legal, psychological and medical aid,
respectively, whilst 15 were forwarded to the State Employment Agency in order to be put
on vocational training courses.
Also during the reporting period, 98 (-2) actual and potential victims were each
given the allowance in the amount of AZN 5,300 (-50) at the expense of the Human
Trafficking Victims Aid Fund of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The contracted members of the Bar Collegium heled 47 victims with judicial reviews
and 58 ones during criminal investigation and, in total, provided 105 people with legal and
psychological aid.
The victims’ children were in the focus as well; 19 of them were supplied with
schooling necessities, 2 were put in reschool education programmes, 17 were issued with
birth certificates and a further 11 had alimony payments organised for them.
It being in keeping with Article 14-1.1 (recovery and consideration period) of
the Law ‘On Combatting Trafficking in Humans’ of the Republic of Azerbaijan, 10 (+2)
victims w e r e g i v e n 3 0 d a y s i n w h i c h t o r e c o v e r , b e c o m e
d i s t a n c e d f r o m t h e c r i m i n a l s ’ i n f l u e n c e a n d c o n s i d e r
c o l l a b o r a t i n g w i t h t h e p e r t a i n i n g c r i m i n a l p r o s e c u t i o n
a u t h o r i t y .
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The ‘152’ Hot Line received 9,626 (-197) calls with each call investigated and the
callers referred to appropriate bodies where their rights were explained to them.
The ratification by the Republic of Azerbaijan of various international documents,
the signoff by the Head of State of four National Action Plans to combat trafficking in
humans in 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2020, the formation of a special police task force within the
system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the emergence of the ‘Shelter’, ‘Aid Centre’,
‘Help Fund’ and ‘Hot Line’ telephone services for victims, the launch of the official website,
the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding about co-operation with the Coalition of
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N G O s , t h e i d e n t i f i c a t i o n , a n d s o c i a l r e h a b i l i t a t i o n o f v i c t i m s a s
w e l l a s t h e e s t a b l i s h m e n t o f s p e c i a l i n s t i t u t i o n s b y t h e S t a t e ,
v i c t i m s ’ r e p a t r i a t i o n t o t h e i r h o m e c o u n t r i e s , a p p r o v a l o f t h e
N a t i o n a l C o o r d i n a t i o n M e c h a n i s m a s w e l l a s t h e o t h e r n e c e s s a r y
s t e p s t a k e n g a v e r i s e t o m a t e r i a l a d v a n c e s i n t h e c o u n t e r i n g o f
t r a f f i c k i n g i n h u m a n s .
It follows from the above that it is one of the objectives to ensure the continuity of
the positive results achieved in the period since 2004 to the present time, during which the
action against trafficking in human beings began to be conducted in the legal dimension.
On the other hand, a new conceptual draft document should be drawn u for the
years 2025-2030 given that the fourth National Action Plan, which has played an
exceptional role in the countering of trafficking in humans, is due to expire this year. The
new conceptual document is to ensure an integrated and systematic counteraction.
The extensive use of the modern information communication technologies by the
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transnational organised crime groups necessitates improvement of the relevant
professionalism of the concerned personnel, implementation of the relevant progressive
international experience, streamlining of the operations and broadening of international
collaboration, especially so the interstate mutual legal and technical assistance to make it
possible to investigate comprehensively and efficiently the crimes committed online. All the
above have been identified as the goals to pursue.
The relevant activities continue in a planned manner currently.
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The Human Trafficking Crimes’ Dynamics
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan
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The Human Trafficking Crimes’ Dynamics The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Document forgery for trafficking in
humans -21.5% (44)
Trafficking in Humans - 77% (159)
Trafficking in Humans - 77% (159)
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Persons tried in court for human trafficking crimes in
2005-2023
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan
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The genders of the persons tried in court for human
trafficking crimes in 2005-2023 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Men Women
Total:
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The victims of the human trafficking crimes revealed
during 2005-2023 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan
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The yearly breakdown of the human trafficking victims
identified in 2023 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan
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The breakdown of human trafficking victims by the
towns and provinces The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan
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The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan
The gender-wise breakdown of the human trafficking
victims identified in 2023
The age-wise breakdown of the human trafficking victims
identified in 2023
Men – 86
Women - 1264
Older than
35 – 35 (38%)
18-25 years
6 (7%)
25-35 years
55 (55%)
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The Republic of Azerbaijan
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan
The countries where human trafficking victims were exploited The countries of citizenship of the human trafficking victims
The Republic of Turkiye 28
The United Arab Emirates 15
The State of Qatar 4
The Republic of Azerbaijan 2
The Russian Federation 28
The Kingdom of Bahrain 10
The Islamic Republic of Iran 3
The Republic of Iraq 1
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The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Suspects wanted for human trafficking crimes
Countries where suspects wanted internationally via the
Interpol for human trafficking crimes are believed to be
hiding
For trafficking in humans
For other crimes related to trafficking in
humans
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan
The Republic of Turkiye
The United Arab Emirates
The Russian Federation
39
Crimes against the public morality The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Illegal distribution of pornographic materials or items
Operation of brothels
Involvement in prostitution
40
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan Indictments of the Grave Offences Court on human
traffickers
Imprisonment
41
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan The participation of international and local events by the
personnel of the Chief Office against Trafficking in Humans
in 2023
International and local events Online participation
Abroad
38%
In the
country
62%
Physical
participation-36
Online
participati
on 21