European Women’s Lobby implements new CEE project against trafficking

European Women’s Lobby (EWL) has started to implement and develop its project "Promoting preventative measures to combat trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation", co-coordinated together with the Coalition against Trafficking in Women (CATW).

The purpose of this project is to address gaps in current anti-trafficking programs and policies that avoid focusing on gender equality, the demand, and the links between trafficking and prostitution. It will support women’s NGOs working on these issues in 12 countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo/Albania, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Russia, and Serbia-Montenegro. A first national action took place in the Czech Republic, where a seminar was organised in Prague by the Czech Coordination of the EWL on 24th March. Well attended by national Parliamentarians, NGOs representatives and journalists, and by the coordinators of the project, this was an opportunity to present the project at large and with its national component, but also to discuss the Czech legislative proposal to regulate prostitution (the proposal was then rejected by the Czech Chamber of Deputies on March 29).

A consultative seminar was organised in Brussels on April 22-24 to draft the national action plans with the partners of all countries involved.

For more information contact Colette De Troy: centre-violence@womenlobby.org

Source: www.womenlobby.org