On January 21 and 28American Cornerheld online meetings on the topic
"Modern Slavery– All About Human Trafficking". Speakers of the event were:
AleksandrKossyuk– Chairman of
the «Damuty» PF (Kostanay), AmirzhanAgeleuov– Senior Operational Officer for Criminal Police
Directorate ofthe WKO Police
Department, Police Major (Uralsk), BehzodTulaev– Lawyer “Sana Sezim"(Shymkent) and
GulnurIdigeeva– Executive
Director of the Information and Consulting Center"Duris"(Aktobe), Eleonor Valentine (Winrock
International), Nina Balabayeva ("Rodnik"), MaksatBaibekov
("UN Women"). Participants learnt about the currentslavery situation
in Kazakhstan. Speakers told about the specifics, features and difficulties of
their work. In the end of the session, guest Stephanie Olsen, Policy Officer ofthe
US Embassy in Republic of Kazakhstan introduced the history of January as Human
Trafficking Awareness Month in the United States.