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The ILO handbook for labour inspectors on forced labour and human trafficking in the Armenian language was presented in Yerevan on October 4. The event was organized within the framework of the ILO project on strengthening of comprehensive anti-trafficking response in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia in cooperation with Armenia’s State Labour Inspectorate.
The handbook is a tool for training. It seeks both to inform labour inspectors of the facts and trends of modern forced labour and the challenges before them, and to promote discussion as to how labour inspectorates worldwide could be harnessed more effectively to global efforts against forced labour and trafficking. It identifies cases of good and innovative practice.
The event brought together over 30 labour inspectors, representatives of law enforcement agencies, the prosecutor-general’s office and experts of international and local non-governmental organizations.
The head of the labour and employment department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Issues, Tadevos Avetisyan, stressed the need for labour inspectors to increase their capacity to combat forced labour and trafficking in human beings and establish working modalities with other law enforcement authorities that are already addressing this phenomenon.
The event’s participants looked at the international and national legal framework, focused on the recently established National Referral Mechanism (NRM) in Armenia and discussed actions taken by law enforcement agencies to fight trafficking in human beings. They watched a short documentary on a concrete case in Italy showing the close cooperation between Labour Inspectors and Law Enforcement authorities in a real-life raid.
The launch of the handbook was followed by a training workshop on forced labour and trafficking in human beings for labour inspectors.
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