At the initiative of the Interagency Commission on Combating Trafficking in Persons, on February 4–5, 2025, a training seminar was held at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan on the topic “Enhancing Judicial Experience in the Consideration of Criminal Cases Related to Trafficking in Persons and Ensuring Judicial Fairness for Victims of Trafficking in Persons.”
This training seminar was designed for judges of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tajikistan, judges of the Dushanbe city court, and judges of the courts in the four districts of the capital. In addition, the seminar was attended by representatives of the International Organization for Migration, the European Security Cooperation Organization, public organizations, field experts from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the National University of Tajikistan.
The purpose of the seminar was to implement the requirements of the Law of the Republic of Tajikistan “On Combating Trafficking in Persons and Providing Assistance to Victims of Trafficking in Persons,” as well as international legal normative documents governing the activities of the country’s law enforcement agencies, including the implementation of judicial fairness in criminal cases related to trafficking in persons.
Similar training seminars with representatives of the judicial authorities are planned not only in the city of Dushanbe but also in the administrative centers of the Sughd and Khatlon regions, Mukhori Kuhiston of Badakhshan, and in the districts belonging to the center and the valley of Rasht during February and March of this year.
It should be noted that, according to the decision of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan dated March 2, 2023, the promotion of the activities of the Interagency Commission on Combating Trafficking in Persons was entrusted to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The chairmanship of the Commission is assigned to the First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan, Police General-Lieutenant Alamshozoda Abdurahmon Alamsho.
