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‘Sew Faster’ at Gunpoint: Indian Workers Strike at Ijevan Factory
Workers both live and work on-site, under continuous surveillance—more than 40 cameras are installed throughout the premises...Read More »
Child Protection Contradicts Armenian Values Claim Prosperous Armenia Party, Apostolic Church and “Kamq” ultraconservatives
"Children just separated from milk and fairy tales" should not learn to protect themselves from sexual abuse, because this is contradicting "our national mentality.․․Read More »
Tightened Sanctions for Impelling or Compelling Parents to Relinquish Parental Rights
An individual who impels or compels another person to relinquish parental rights will be fined in an amount 200-500-fold of the minimum salary...Read More »
Silvio Berlusconi on US Government Report on People Trafficking
"In February 2011, judges set a trial date for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for the alleged commercial sexual exploitation of a Moroccan child...Read More »
Armenia. Source Country for Women Subjected to Sex Trafficking: US State Department
Armenia is also a source and destination country for women subjected to forced labor, and a source country for...Read More »
Armenia’s Prosecutor General Supports Trafficking, Pornography: HAK Statement
"This scandalous discovery by WikiLeaks proves that Armenia, on an official level, represented by the Prosecutor General's office, is...Read More »
‘May God Keep Us from the Evil that Comes from Prostitutes’: Armenia’s General Prosecutor
Former US Ambassador to Armenia John M. Evans met with the Prosecutor General of Armenia Aghvan Hovsepyan about allegations of...Read More »
Armenia Must Offer Women Alternative to Prostitution if it is to Eradicate Trafficking: Evans
Former US Ambassador to Armenia John M. Evans raised the issue of sex and prostitution in Vanadazor in a leaked US cable published...Read More »