Building the Capacity of Roma Communities to Prevent Trafficking in Human Beings. Roundtable Report, Tirana 18-20 September 2006
- Document number
- 1534
- Date
- 2006
- Title
- Building the Capacity of Roma Communities to Prevent Trafficking in Human Beings. Roundtable Report, Tirana 18-20 September 2006
- Author/publisher
- Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
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- Document type(s)
- Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports,
- Keywords
- The roundtable “Making Prevention of Trafficking in Human Beings Effective: Building Regional and Local Capacity of Roma Communities”, Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues, Anti-Trafficking Programme of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Presence in Albania,
- Summary
- The roundtable “Making Prevention of Traffi cking in Human Beings Eff ective: Building Regional andLocal Capacity of Roma Communities”, Tirana, September 2006, was organized by the ContactPoint for Roma and Sinti Issues and the Anti-Traffi cking Programme of the OSCE Offi ce for DemocraticInstitutions and Human Rights in co-operation with the OSCE Presence in Albania. Around Roma and non-Roma actors, mostly from civil society but also from governmental institutions,who work on anti-traffi cking and broader child-rights issues, participated in the roundtable. Theycame from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia,including the province of Kosovo, Romania, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, France, Greece,Spain and Italy. In addition, several OSCE fi eld missions and international organizations working on antitrafficking, child rights and Roma issues in the region attended. The roundtable was divided into two parts. Part I consisted of presentations from various organizations,which aimed to generate discussion on issues aff ecting anti-traffi cking eff orts including the natureof traffi cking, vulnerability factors, and structural and attitudinal issues. This was followed by detailedpresentations on programmatic activities in countries of origin and destination. Part II provided the participantswith the opportunity to develop project ideas and proposals, with a view to submitting themfor funding to the ODIHR’s Roma Anti-Trafficking Project Fund (Roma ATP Fund).
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