Armenia doesn’t fully meet minimum standards to eliminate trafficking, report says

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday released the 2022 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report.

For the second year in a row, Armenia is on Tier 2, in recognition of its overall increasing efforts towards the elimination of trafficking as compared with the previous reporting period, the U.S. Embassy in Armenia reports.

These efforts included prosecuting more traffickers and identifying more victims. Courts convicted a labor trafficker for the first time since 2014. The government adopted screening indicators for use by social workers, amended procedures to standardize data collection and information shari...