4.9 Office in Yerevan Activities Related to Threats Posed by Criminal Activity Illicit Drugs and Chemical Precursors From 10-11 September, the Office participated and sponsored the participation of two representatives of the Ministry of Justice and RA Police in the OSCE-wide Conference on “Enhancement of Mechanisms to Cope with Increasing Spread of Illicit Drugs amongst Young People” in Vienna, Austria. Trafficking in Human Beings & Migration-Related Crime On 20 April, the two national experts, selected and hired by the Office to conduct a survey on child labour and exploitation in child care centers and special schools in several provinces in Armenia, presented their draft report. The report, describing the current situation of child labour and trafficking in child care institutions, will be submitted to the relevant state and non-governmental agencies for their feedback and finalized for further distribution. The findings and recommendations of the report will contribute to improving the process of identifying victims of child exploitation and their referral mechanism. On 10 June, the Office organized a meeting between its AntiTrafficking Project Monitoring Board (PMB) and the Project Implementing Partner. The draft report on forced and child labour and labour trafficking, prepared by the Project Implementing Partner, and the recommendations that followed the report, were presented at a meeting with the Anti-Trafficking PMB, comprised of representatives of the main state structures involved in combating forced labour and human trafficking (Armenian Police, State Statistics Service, Ministry of Labour and Social Issues, Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and two NGOs. Comments received from the PMB will be taken into consideration and the required changes will be made to the current draft. From 10-11 July, at the request of the Anti-Trafficking InterAgency WG, the Office organized a two-day event outside Yerevan. The meeting aimed at presenting the draft report on the findings and recommendations of the study on child and labour trafficking in Armenia. The members of the WG contributed to the final clarification of several issues in the report, before it was published in September 2015. The meeting was also a good opportunity to design the first draft of the next three-year (2016-2018) Anti-Trafficking National Action Plan (NAP) for Armenia. 100 On 24 December, a pilot study aimed at improving identification of forced labour and labour trafficking cases among adults and children and at strengthening joint efforts to address related challenges was launched in Yerevan. The Office organized the presentation of the two-year (20142015) project, which was conducted in close co-operation with the Inter-Agency Anti-Trafficking Inter-Agency WG and the US State Department International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Bureau (the project donor). Over 40 participants, representing various ministries, state agencies and NGOs in the Anti-Trafficking Inter-Agency WG as well as national experts involved in the project, discussed the findings and recommendations of the study conducted by the Caucasus Research Resource Centre – Armenia. The Head of the Office, Ambassador Andrey Sorokin, opened the presentation, and introductory remarks were made by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Issues, the US Ambassador to Armenia, the Program Director of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL), and the Manager of the OiY Democratization Programme. The Office also organized a two-day workshop for 40 participants, including AntiTrafficking Inter-Agency WG members and national experts involved in the implementation of the project, to finalize the 2016-2018 National Action Plan (NAP) on Combatting Human Trafficking, taking into consideration the recommendations of the study. The workshop took place between 24-26 December in Tsaghkadzor, outside Yerevan, and resulted in a finalized NAP that will be submitted to the Prime Minister’s Office for adoption. Cybercrime On 30 April, the Office met the Head of the General Police Department on Fighting Organized Crime to discuss potential co-operation and issues of common interest. The need to find ways of regulating matters pertaining to logging, storing and accessing information was raised, with a particular focus on formalising relations between the police and internet providers. Views were exchanged on strengthening the capacities of the police to prevent and combat various forms of cybercrime. From 17-19 June, the Office, together with representatives of the police, prosecutor’s office, investigative committee and the Ministry of Justice, participated in the Council of Europe Octopus Conference 2015 “Cooperation against Cybercrime” in Strasbourg, France. The event gathered participants from all key sectors, including government, law enforcement, independent experts, academia, private and international organizations dealing with cybersecurity/ cybercrime issues. The conference focused on cybercrime legislation, implementation of the Budapest Convention, capacity-building for governmental institutions working on