Azerbaijan and Trafficking

Azerbaijan is a transit country for people who are trafficked to Turkey, Russia and the UAE. These are the states that use men, women and children the most. Usually women and some children are trafficked for sexual exploitation, and the men and boys are trafficked for forced labor. Other countries that have victims being trafficked are Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Moldova. Unfortunately Azerbaijan has not shown any recent efforts in finding or punishing the people responsible for the trafficking, and apparently does not treat the victims very nicely.

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Azerbaijan and the Military

Azerbaijan entered into the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe or the CFE in July of 1992. This places limits on their military equipment and provides the destruction of the equipment that falls outside of these guidelines. Azerbaijan openly allows inspections of the military forces in the region. The country approved the CFE flank agreement in May of 1997, and also a part of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and has been deemed a non-nuclear weapons state. Azerbaijan is an active member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Partnership for Peace, and has a 90 troop presence in Afghanistan. Also, Azerbaijan kept peacekeeping deployment in Iraq until November of 2008.

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Roadside bomb in Afghanistan kills 4 NATO troops

A roadside bomb killed four NATO service members Saturday in eastern Afghanistan, the coalition said. Elsewhere in the east, a female suicide bomber detonated her explosives near a coalition convoy, wounding three Afghan guards.

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Afghanistan's History

Darius I and Alexander the Great were the first to use Afghanistan as the gateway to India. Islamic conquerors arrived in the 7th century, and Genghis Khan and Tamerlane followed in the 13th and 14th centuries.

In the 19th century, Afghanistan became a battleground in the rivalry between imperial Britain and czarist Russia for control of Central Asia. Three Anglo-Afghan wars (1839–1842, 1878–1880, and 1919) ended inconclusively. In 1893 Britain established an unofficial border, the Durand Line, separating Afghanistan from British India, and London granted full independence in 1919. Emir Amanullah founded an Afghan monarchy in 1926.

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