Tajikistan is a source country for women trafficked through Kyrgyzstan and Russia to the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), Turkey, and Russia for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Women are also reportedly trafficked to Pakistan for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor. Men are trafficked to Russia and Kazakhstan for the purpose of forced labor, primarily in the construction and agricultural industries. Boys and girls are trafficked internally for various purposes, including forced labor and forced begging. The Government of Tajikistan does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so. Tajikistan is placed on Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to provide evidence over the previous year of increasing efforts to combat human trafficking, especially efforts to investigate, prosecute, convict, and sentence traffickers. Despite endemic government corruption and evidence of individual low- and mid-level officials’ complicity in trafficking, the government did not punish any public officials for trafficking complicity during the reporting period. Lack of capacity and poor coordination between government institutions remained key obstacles to effective anti-trafficking efforts; corruption remained a contributing factor. Tajikistan made only some efforts to raise awareness about the dangers of trafficking among its estimated one million citizens who find permanent or seasonal work abroad, primarily in Russia and Kazakhstan. The government approved changes to its law defining trafficking. The government continued to improve cooperation with IOM and NGOs.
Human trafficking is the trade of humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extraction of organs or tissues, including for surrogacy and ova removal. Human trafficking can occur within a country or trans-nationally. Human trafficking is a crime against the person because of the violation of the victim's rights of movement through coercion and because of their commercial exploitation. Human trafficking is the trade in people, and does not necessarily involve the movement of the person from one place to another.
Human trafficking represented an estimated $31.6 billion of international trade per annum in 2010.
Human trafficking is thought to be one of the fastest-growing activities of trans-national criminal organizations.
Human trafficking is condemned as a violation of human rights by international conventions. In addition, human trafficking is subject to a directive in the European Union.
In Prague, Czech Republic, single mother Helena (Isabelle Blais) is seduced by a successful handsome man and travels with him to spend a weekend in Vienna, Austria. He then sells her to Human Traffickers and she is brought to New York to work as a sex slave. In Kiev, Ukraine, sixteen-year-old Nadia (Laurence Leboeuf) has recently finished school and, without her father's prior consent or knowledge, she enters a modelling competition. She is selected by the bogus model agency to travel to New York with the other selected candidates, here she is forced into a life of sexual slavery. In Manila, Philippines, twelve-year-old American tourist Annie Gray (Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse) is abducted in front of her mother in a busy street by sex traffickers. She is forced into a child brothel which primarily services sex tourists. In common, the girls become victims of a powerful international network of sex traffickers led by the powerful Sergei Karpovich (Robert Carlyle).
Tajikistan (i/tɑːˈdʒiːkᵻstɑːn/, /təˈdʒiːkᵻstæn/, or /tæˈdʒiːkiːstæn/; Тоҷикистон[tɔd͡ʒikɪsˈtɔn]), officially the Republic of Tajikistan (Tajik:Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Çumhuriji Toçikiston/Jumhuriyi Tojikiston; Russian:Респу́блика Таджикистан, Respublika Tadzhikistan), is a mountainous landlocked sovereign country in Central Asia. With an estimated 8 million people in 2013, it is the 98th most populous country and with an area of 143,100km2 (55,300sqmi), it is the 96th largest country in the world. It is bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east. Pakistan lies to the south separated by the narrow Wakhan Corridor. Traditional homelands of Tajik people included present-day Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.
Tajikistan has passed a law that urges citizens to wear traditional clothes. Though the recommendation is vague and carries no penalties, authorities appear to have a specific goal in mind: discouraging women from wearing the Islamic hijab. (RFE/RL's Tajik Service)
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/tajikistan-clothing-islam-hijab/28707473.html
published: 31 Aug 2017
Tajik migrant workers | DW Documentary
Russia's economic crisis means thousands of Tajiks are forced to return to their home country. Many face poverty and hopelessness.
For many years, Dzhamshed worked on construction sites in Russia to support his wife and four children. But when Russia tightened its immigration laws, many of the migrant workers were no longer welcome. Dzhamshed had to return to Tajikistan along with hundreds of thousands of his countrymen.
Life there is a fight for survival. With no job or other prospects, some become radicalized and follow recruiters for the Islamic State terrorist group. Dzhamshed has no thought of joining the IS. He tries to get by as a day laborer in the capital Dushanbe. Every day is a new struggle to scrape together enough money to feed his family.
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Drugs Blight - Tajikistan
Nov 2007
Tajikistan is struggling to cope with an influx of cheap drugs from Afghanistan. The country has just one rehab clinic and on average, ten soldiers a year die in shoot outs with drug traffickers.
Last year, more than two billion dollars worth of heroin was smuggled from Afghanistan. "No matter how much effort we put into fighting the trafficking, the real problem is in Afghanistan", complains General Nazarov. Many are nostalgic of the days of the Taliban, when heroin was much harder to obtain.
published: 26 Nov 2007
Tajik Boys Sold Into Prostitution,Sexual Slavery Bacha Bazi To An Nothern Alliance Warlord
Tajik Boys Sold Into Prostitution,Sexual Slavery Bacha Bazi To An Nothern Alliance Warlord.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article...
bacha bazi Farsi Or Persian Language — which literally translates into boy-play
The Tajiks, who make up 20 % of Afghanistan's population and are the second largest ethnic group In Afghanistan-
A bacha bereesh is a boy without a beard
Horrifying Oz ABC Corners report: Afghani journalist, Najibullah Quraishi, has risked his life to document the Taliban-banned, now widespread By The Northern Alliance practice of Bacha Bazi (boy play), where Tajik boys are forced into prostitution
Филми тасвирии мазкур бо мусоидати Созмони байнулмилалии муҳоҷират барои боло бардоштани сатҳи огаҳии мардум аз хатарҳои эҳтимолии гирифторӣ ба доми фиреби ҷинояткорон таҳия шудааст.
This animation supported by IOM Tajikistan aims to raise awareness on trafficking threats. Suggestions and cooperation, as well as sharing this video are welcomed.
published: 09 Nov 2015
Iraq's Secret Sex Trade - Trailer
Iraq's religious front for child prostitution is uncovered in this powerful investigation. Iraq's Secret Sex Trade is available now to stream on digital platforms!
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This BBC Arabic investigation goes undercover at some of Iraq's holiest shrines, exposing a secret world of sexual exploitation where clerics trick children and young women into "pleasure marriages".
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published: 20 Nov 2019
USAID's Dignity and Rights Worked to Combat Trafficking in Persons
In close partnership with the Government of Tajikistan, the U.S. Government has been working on combating human trafficking since 2001. Over the past five years, over 1,000 trafficking survivors and vulnerable migrants have received rehabilitation and reintegration through USAID's Dignity and Rights project, which also enabled more than 62,000 people to access services to protect their rights, including those available through government agencies.
Learn more here: https://tj.usembassy.gov/pr-102920/
published: 20 Nov 2020
Who is next...Part 2 - Тоҷикистон, Таджикистан, Tajikistan
This film is based on a real story and tells about an ordinary village girl from Tajikistan who becomes a victim of human trafficking. Produced by the International Organization for Migration Mission in Tajikistan. Directed by Ozod Malikov. 2006. Part 2/4
For more information about IOM Tajikistan programming, go to www.iom.tj
published: 13 Dec 2010
Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan
In rural Kyrgyzstan men still marry their women the old-fashioned way: by abducting them off the street and forcing them to be their wife. Bride kidnapping is a supposedly ancient custom that's made a major comeback since the fall of Communism and now accounts for nearly half of all marriages in some parts. We traveled to the Kyrgyz countryside to follow a young groom named Kubanti as he surprised his teenage girlfriend Nazgul with the gift of marriage/kidnapping.
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Tajikistan has passed a law that urges citizens to wear traditional clothes. Though the recommendation is vague and carries no penalties, authorities appear to ...
Tajikistan has passed a law that urges citizens to wear traditional clothes. Though the recommendation is vague and carries no penalties, authorities appear to have a specific goal in mind: discouraging women from wearing the Islamic hijab. (RFE/RL's Tajik Service)
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/tajikistan-clothing-islam-hijab/28707473.html
Tajikistan has passed a law that urges citizens to wear traditional clothes. Though the recommendation is vague and carries no penalties, authorities appear to have a specific goal in mind: discouraging women from wearing the Islamic hijab. (RFE/RL's Tajik Service)
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/tajikistan-clothing-islam-hijab/28707473.html
Russia's economic crisis means thousands of Tajiks are forced to return to their home country. Many face poverty and hopelessness.
For many years, Dzhamshed wo...
Russia's economic crisis means thousands of Tajiks are forced to return to their home country. Many face poverty and hopelessness.
For many years, Dzhamshed worked on construction sites in Russia to support his wife and four children. But when Russia tightened its immigration laws, many of the migrant workers were no longer welcome. Dzhamshed had to return to Tajikistan along with hundreds of thousands of his countrymen.
Life there is a fight for survival. With no job or other prospects, some become radicalized and follow recruiters for the Islamic State terrorist group. Dzhamshed has no thought of joining the IS. He tries to get by as a day laborer in the capital Dushanbe. Every day is a new struggle to scrape together enough money to feed his family.
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Russia's economic crisis means thousands of Tajiks are forced to return to their home country. Many face poverty and hopelessness.
For many years, Dzhamshed worked on construction sites in Russia to support his wife and four children. But when Russia tightened its immigration laws, many of the migrant workers were no longer welcome. Dzhamshed had to return to Tajikistan along with hundreds of thousands of his countrymen.
Life there is a fight for survival. With no job or other prospects, some become radicalized and follow recruiters for the Islamic State terrorist group. Dzhamshed has no thought of joining the IS. He tries to get by as a day laborer in the capital Dushanbe. Every day is a new struggle to scrape together enough money to feed his family.
_______
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Nov 2007
Tajikistan is struggling to cope with an influx of cheap drugs from Afghanistan. The country has just one rehab clinic and on average, ten soldiers a ...
Nov 2007
Tajikistan is struggling to cope with an influx of cheap drugs from Afghanistan. The country has just one rehab clinic and on average, ten soldiers a year die in shoot outs with drug traffickers.
Last year, more than two billion dollars worth of heroin was smuggled from Afghanistan. "No matter how much effort we put into fighting the trafficking, the real problem is in Afghanistan", complains General Nazarov. Many are nostalgic of the days of the Taliban, when heroin was much harder to obtain.
Nov 2007
Tajikistan is struggling to cope with an influx of cheap drugs from Afghanistan. The country has just one rehab clinic and on average, ten soldiers a year die in shoot outs with drug traffickers.
Last year, more than two billion dollars worth of heroin was smuggled from Afghanistan. "No matter how much effort we put into fighting the trafficking, the real problem is in Afghanistan", complains General Nazarov. Many are nostalgic of the days of the Taliban, when heroin was much harder to obtain.
Tajik Boys Sold Into Prostitution,Sexual Slavery Bacha Bazi To An Nothern Alliance Warlord.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article...
bacha bazi Farsi Or Persi...
Tajik Boys Sold Into Prostitution,Sexual Slavery Bacha Bazi To An Nothern Alliance Warlord.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article...
bacha bazi Farsi Or Persian Language — which literally translates into boy-play
The Tajiks, who make up 20 % of Afghanistan's population and are the second largest ethnic group In Afghanistan-
A bacha bereesh is a boy without a beard
Horrifying Oz ABC Corners report: Afghani journalist, Najibullah Quraishi, has risked his life to document the Taliban-banned, now widespread By The Northern Alliance practice of Bacha Bazi (boy play), where Tajik boys are forced into prostitution
Tajik Boys Sold Into Prostitution,Sexual Slavery Bacha Bazi To An Nothern Alliance Warlord.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article...
bacha bazi Farsi Or Persian Language — which literally translates into boy-play
The Tajiks, who make up 20 % of Afghanistan's population and are the second largest ethnic group In Afghanistan-
A bacha bereesh is a boy without a beard
Horrifying Oz ABC Corners report: Afghani journalist, Najibullah Quraishi, has risked his life to document the Taliban-banned, now widespread By The Northern Alliance practice of Bacha Bazi (boy play), where Tajik boys are forced into prostitution
Филми тасвирии мазкур бо мусоидати Созмони байнулмилалии муҳоҷират барои боло бардоштани сатҳи огаҳии мардум аз хатарҳои эҳтимолии гирифторӣ ба доми фиреби ҷино...
Филми тасвирии мазкур бо мусоидати Созмони байнулмилалии муҳоҷират барои боло бардоштани сатҳи огаҳии мардум аз хатарҳои эҳтимолии гирифторӣ ба доми фиреби ҷинояткорон таҳия шудааст.
This animation supported by IOM Tajikistan aims to raise awareness on trafficking threats. Suggestions and cooperation, as well as sharing this video are welcomed.
Филми тасвирии мазкур бо мусоидати Созмони байнулмилалии муҳоҷират барои боло бардоштани сатҳи огаҳии мардум аз хатарҳои эҳтимолии гирифторӣ ба доми фиреби ҷинояткорон таҳия шудааст.
This animation supported by IOM Tajikistan aims to raise awareness on trafficking threats. Suggestions and cooperation, as well as sharing this video are welcomed.
Iraq's religious front for child prostitution is uncovered in this powerful investigation. Iraq's Secret Sex Trade is available now to stream on digital platfor...
Iraq's religious front for child prostitution is uncovered in this powerful investigation. Iraq's Secret Sex Trade is available now to stream on digital platforms!
Get it now on:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07YXBPWL4/ref=cm_sw_tw_r_pv_wb_7I2JB3A3l4BVl
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/iraqssecretsexslaves
Subscribe to Journeyman here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXriVnwusXbXT2Yz2vKb-Ow
This BBC Arabic investigation goes undercover at some of Iraq's holiest shrines, exposing a secret world of sexual exploitation where clerics trick children and young women into "pleasure marriages".
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BBC Arabic – Ref. 7677
Iraq's religious front for child prostitution is uncovered in this powerful investigation. Iraq's Secret Sex Trade is available now to stream on digital platforms!
Get it now on:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07YXBPWL4/ref=cm_sw_tw_r_pv_wb_7I2JB3A3l4BVl
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This BBC Arabic investigation goes undercover at some of Iraq's holiest shrines, exposing a secret world of sexual exploitation where clerics trick children and young women into "pleasure marriages".
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BBC Arabic – Ref. 7677
In close partnership with the Government of Tajikistan, the U.S. Government has been working on combating human trafficking since 2001. Over the past five years...
In close partnership with the Government of Tajikistan, the U.S. Government has been working on combating human trafficking since 2001. Over the past five years, over 1,000 trafficking survivors and vulnerable migrants have received rehabilitation and reintegration through USAID's Dignity and Rights project, which also enabled more than 62,000 people to access services to protect their rights, including those available through government agencies.
Learn more here: https://tj.usembassy.gov/pr-102920/
In close partnership with the Government of Tajikistan, the U.S. Government has been working on combating human trafficking since 2001. Over the past five years, over 1,000 trafficking survivors and vulnerable migrants have received rehabilitation and reintegration through USAID's Dignity and Rights project, which also enabled more than 62,000 people to access services to protect their rights, including those available through government agencies.
Learn more here: https://tj.usembassy.gov/pr-102920/
This film is based on a real story and tells about an ordinary village girl from Tajikistan who becomes a victim of human trafficking. Produced by the Internat...
This film is based on a real story and tells about an ordinary village girl from Tajikistan who becomes a victim of human trafficking. Produced by the International Organization for Migration Mission in Tajikistan. Directed by Ozod Malikov. 2006. Part 2/4
For more information about IOM Tajikistan programming, go to www.iom.tj
This film is based on a real story and tells about an ordinary village girl from Tajikistan who becomes a victim of human trafficking. Produced by the International Organization for Migration Mission in Tajikistan. Directed by Ozod Malikov. 2006. Part 2/4
For more information about IOM Tajikistan programming, go to www.iom.tj
In rural Kyrgyzstan men still marry their women the old-fashioned way: by abducting them off the street and forcing them to be their wife. Bride kidnapping is a...
In rural Kyrgyzstan men still marry their women the old-fashioned way: by abducting them off the street and forcing them to be their wife. Bride kidnapping is a supposedly ancient custom that's made a major comeback since the fall of Communism and now accounts for nearly half of all marriages in some parts. We traveled to the Kyrgyz countryside to follow a young groom named Kubanti as he surprised his teenage girlfriend Nazgul with the gift of marriage/kidnapping.
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In rural Kyrgyzstan men still marry their women the old-fashioned way: by abducting them off the street and forcing them to be their wife. Bride kidnapping is a supposedly ancient custom that's made a major comeback since the fall of Communism and now accounts for nearly half of all marriages in some parts. We traveled to the Kyrgyz countryside to follow a young groom named Kubanti as he surprised his teenage girlfriend Nazgul with the gift of marriage/kidnapping.
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Tajikistan has passed a law that urges citizens to wear traditional clothes. Though the recommendation is vague and carries no penalties, authorities appear to have a specific goal in mind: discouraging women from wearing the Islamic hijab. (RFE/RL's Tajik Service)
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/tajikistan-clothing-islam-hijab/28707473.html
Russia's economic crisis means thousands of Tajiks are forced to return to their home country. Many face poverty and hopelessness.
For many years, Dzhamshed worked on construction sites in Russia to support his wife and four children. But when Russia tightened its immigration laws, many of the migrant workers were no longer welcome. Dzhamshed had to return to Tajikistan along with hundreds of thousands of his countrymen.
Life there is a fight for survival. With no job or other prospects, some become radicalized and follow recruiters for the Islamic State terrorist group. Dzhamshed has no thought of joining the IS. He tries to get by as a day laborer in the capital Dushanbe. Every day is a new struggle to scrape together enough money to feed his family.
_______
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Nov 2007
Tajikistan is struggling to cope with an influx of cheap drugs from Afghanistan. The country has just one rehab clinic and on average, ten soldiers a year die in shoot outs with drug traffickers.
Last year, more than two billion dollars worth of heroin was smuggled from Afghanistan. "No matter how much effort we put into fighting the trafficking, the real problem is in Afghanistan", complains General Nazarov. Many are nostalgic of the days of the Taliban, when heroin was much harder to obtain.
Tajik Boys Sold Into Prostitution,Sexual Slavery Bacha Bazi To An Nothern Alliance Warlord.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article...
bacha bazi Farsi Or Persian Language — which literally translates into boy-play
The Tajiks, who make up 20 % of Afghanistan's population and are the second largest ethnic group In Afghanistan-
A bacha bereesh is a boy without a beard
Horrifying Oz ABC Corners report: Afghani journalist, Najibullah Quraishi, has risked his life to document the Taliban-banned, now widespread By The Northern Alliance practice of Bacha Bazi (boy play), where Tajik boys are forced into prostitution
Филми тасвирии мазкур бо мусоидати Созмони байнулмилалии муҳоҷират барои боло бардоштани сатҳи огаҳии мардум аз хатарҳои эҳтимолии гирифторӣ ба доми фиреби ҷинояткорон таҳия шудааст.
This animation supported by IOM Tajikistan aims to raise awareness on trafficking threats. Suggestions and cooperation, as well as sharing this video are welcomed.
Iraq's religious front for child prostitution is uncovered in this powerful investigation. Iraq's Secret Sex Trade is available now to stream on digital platforms!
Get it now on:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07YXBPWL4/ref=cm_sw_tw_r_pv_wb_7I2JB3A3l4BVl
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/iraqssecretsexslaves
Subscribe to Journeyman here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXriVnwusXbXT2Yz2vKb-Ow
This BBC Arabic investigation goes undercover at some of Iraq's holiest shrines, exposing a secret world of sexual exploitation where clerics trick children and young women into "pleasure marriages".
For more information, visit https://www.journeyman.tv/film/7677
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BBC Arabic – Ref. 7677
In close partnership with the Government of Tajikistan, the U.S. Government has been working on combating human trafficking since 2001. Over the past five years, over 1,000 trafficking survivors and vulnerable migrants have received rehabilitation and reintegration through USAID's Dignity and Rights project, which also enabled more than 62,000 people to access services to protect their rights, including those available through government agencies.
Learn more here: https://tj.usembassy.gov/pr-102920/
This film is based on a real story and tells about an ordinary village girl from Tajikistan who becomes a victim of human trafficking. Produced by the International Organization for Migration Mission in Tajikistan. Directed by Ozod Malikov. 2006. Part 2/4
For more information about IOM Tajikistan programming, go to www.iom.tj
In rural Kyrgyzstan men still marry their women the old-fashioned way: by abducting them off the street and forcing them to be their wife. Bride kidnapping is a supposedly ancient custom that's made a major comeback since the fall of Communism and now accounts for nearly half of all marriages in some parts. We traveled to the Kyrgyz countryside to follow a young groom named Kubanti as he surprised his teenage girlfriend Nazgul with the gift of marriage/kidnapping.
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Tajikistan is a source country for women trafficked through Kyrgyzstan and Russia to the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), Turkey, and Russia for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Women are also reportedly trafficked to Pakistan for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor. Men are trafficked to Russia and Kazakhstan for the purpose of forced labor, primarily in the construction and agricultural industries. Boys and girls are trafficked internally for various purposes, including forced labor and forced begging. The Government of Tajikistan does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so. Tajikistan is placed on Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to provide evidence over the previous year of increasing efforts to combat human trafficking, especially efforts to investigate, prosecute, convict, and sentence traffickers. Despite endemic government corruption and evidence of individual low- and mid-level officials’ complicity in trafficking, the government did not punish any public officials for trafficking complicity during the reporting period. Lack of capacity and poor coordination between government institutions remained key obstacles to effective anti-trafficking efforts; corruption remained a contributing factor. Tajikistan made only some efforts to raise awareness about the dangers of trafficking among its estimated one million citizens who find permanent or seasonal work abroad, primarily in Russia and Kazakhstan. The government approved changes to its law defining trafficking. The government continued to improve cooperation with IOM and NGOs.