The meeting was attended by officials from the Internal Affairs Ministry, the Tashkent city prosecutor’s office, the Kamolot social movement of young people, heads of the spiritual and educational centre’s city and district departments, as well as jurists. The participants in the meeting discussed crimes committed by women and joint measures to be taken to prevent them, as well as women trafficking that became a global problem, Ozbekiston Ovozi reported.

Nodir Qurbonov, head of Internal Affairs Ministry department: "The whole international community is concerned about [the issue] of preventing human trafficking, which arose at the end of the last century. To prevent this kind of crimes in our country, we are acquiring the experience of Italy, Russia and a number of other foreign countries and trying to increase the efficiency of our work by using it.

"Labour exploitation, human trafficking, forcing to commit crimes, violating human honour, dignity and rights contradict modern state system principles. We are doing our best to keep this issue under control. Unfortunately, it is a pity that there are abominable cases of this kind among the criminal cases which were solved.

"We have been steadily cooperating with various organizations to resolve this issue. The Uzbekistan Airways National Company is also making its contribution to these. The company has a group that checks people travelling abroad. It is worth to mention that we really need people’s efforts, cooperation and assistance."

Zuhra Ramazonova, Department head of the Tashkent city prosecutor’s office: "We are all concerned about crimes committed among women. It is a pity that 14 per cent of all logged crimes are committed by women. This also directly indicates that we are not working enough to raise women’s legal awareness, spirituality and outlook. It is advisable for organizations in charge of providing people with jobs to be more responsible and work on improving mechanisms of providing people with detailed and full information regarding vacancies in organizations. Although there are 30,000 vacancies in Tashkent, some women are making money illegally as a result of lack of information.