Expert: Problems of Trafficking in Azerbaijan Relevant

There are no official has been held in Azerbaijan to administrative liability for aiding traffickers - said in an interview with TV Lens head of the NGO "Center for Migration" Aliovsat Aliyev.

The past and the present year has been productive in the fight against human trafficking. Such a conclusion can be drawn from the results of trials of criminal gangs. Thus, the criminal acts were prevented dozens of people trafficked to Russia and Iran "cheap labor", including young women. Convicted group of persons involved in transplantation of organs. For the first time in the Caucasus, the courts took into account the claim of the plaintiff and of the moral and material compensation for the said cases. But the struggle is indicative of selective and is not of a nature of the strategy, hence the dissatisfaction of international organizations, the expert said.

Azerbaijan appears as a country - donor labor and women for sexual exploitation. They are trafficked to Turkey, Iran, the Arab countries, the CIS and Eastern Europe).

Transit through Azerbaijan people transported from Central, Central and South-East Asia in various areas.

Finally, in Azerbaijan deliver cheap labor from these regions, as well as women from the European part of the CIS.

At the end of 2012, the Azerbaijani government has set a quota for admission of labor migrants in the range of 11 thousand 970 people, and another 1,000 seats mounted Cabinet of Ministers of Nakhchivan.

However, the actual number of labor migrants is much higher. The real statistics in this area withheld. "Center for Migration" has the data, when the Labor Inspectorate of Labor and Social Security, and the State Migration Service, revealed at the enterprises of 200-300 unformed migrant workers, however, penalize employers, as per one worker.

The most massive and not punishable violations occur, oddly enough, against the Azerbaijanis - immigrants from Iran and Georgia. They have thousands of people live and work here, some came 10 or even 20 years ago, but they do not give out general civil documents, they can not enroll in institutions and registered in the registry office in the civil service pension. At the same time, they acquire a real estate attorney, and their children go to school and serve in the army.

Today costly to the employer to obtain an official permit for migrant workers, it is easier to negotiate with the inspection. On the other hand, the migration service denies many of the migrants to legalization.

According to Aliyev, the last year the agency has addressed about 70,000 foreigners, with one in four was rejected, was wrongly fined or deported. The Service willingly penalizes migrants, as a quarter of the funds go to the organization's budget.

In the U.S. State Department Report on Human Rights for 2012 for Azerbaijan, trafficking named one of the most significant human rights problems.

The document says (referring to the State Migration Service) that in the last year only 1 thousand 776 persons without citizenship (mostly from Georgia and Iran), but the State Department believes that it is too low figures, the number of ethnic Azerbaijanis from These ranges of tens of thousands.

The problem of registration of births is most acute for low-income families, this category of the population at greatest risk of trafficking and export abroad with the purpose of exploitation.

Aliyev said that given the real show trials and political will of the authorities, the status of Azerbaijan will not underestimate the U.S. State Department.

In the asset can be written authorities that dozens of businessmen were fined a large sum for the illegal exploitation of migrant workers, said Aliovsat Aliyev. -17D-