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Associations
for protecting victims
Germany
Ban-Ying
E-mail : Ban-Ying@ipn.de
Web Site : www.Ban-Ying.de
Set
up in 1988, this group comes to the assistance of young women
from South-East Asia, in particular those who are victims of trafficking
in human beings and exploited as prostitutes.
Assistance
programmes are ensured by collaboration between social workers,
cultural mediators, and lawyers. Victims are lodged in an emergency
flat, and they take German classes and then vocational training
courses. They also participate in cultural activities and festivities
(such as carnivals, Buddhist events, etc.) organised by Ban-Ying.
The lawyers
associated with the group give legal-information sessions. A counselling
service is available on a weekly basis. In 2000, approximately
100 women made use of this service.
Unterstützung Schutz Kraft
E-mail: frauenberatung.ha@gmx.net
The aims of this advisory board are:
- the assistance
to migrant women and girls, especially to victims of trafficking.
- preventive
options in co-operation with other advisory boards for migrant
women in Germany and abroad
- fiths against
sexual violence and racial discrimination of migrant women
- buildins
up the society awareness for the living conditions of migrant
women
Terre
des Femmes
E-mail: TDF@swol.de
Web site: www.terre-des-femmes.de
Terre des femmes is a non-profit human rights organisation for
women, providing support through information campaigns, international
networking, direct assistance, and the promotion of specific projects.
Vera
E-mail: vera@awo-lsa.de
Web site: www.awo-lsa.de
Association ZAPO
This group
was created in 1982 by the Polish social council and is financed
by the Berlin senate and the federal government. Its activities
are designed to help young Poles, migrant workers, and trafficking
victims who are exploited as prostitutes.
ZAPO provides
social, psychological, legal, and administrative help. A shelter
has been open since 1999. It is managed by two permanent members
of staff who speak Russian and Polish; and it ensures anonymity
and can take in up to eight people at a time. The victims it deals
with are mainly young women from Eastern Europe.
Koordinierungskreis gegen Frauenhandel
und Gewalt an Frauen im Migrationsprozess (KOK)
e-mail : KOK.Potsdam@t-online.de
Founded in
1987, KOK is a group that functions at the federal level representing
the interests of 38 NGOs concerned with the trafficking of women
and violence against migrant workers.
The group
runs awareness-raising activities and distributes information,
and it works together with other NGOs having similar interests.
Belgium
Centre pour l’égalité des
chances
et la lutte contre le racisme
e-mail : centre@antiracisme.be
Web Site : www.antiracisme.be
A
law passed in 1995 and a royal decree dating from June 16th
of the same year attributed to this pro-equality and anti-racism
group the responsibility of promoting, co-ordinating, and monitoring
the political struggle against international trafficking.
These same
legal texts are also at the basis of an interdepartmental group
set up to co-ordinate the fight against international trafficking
in human beings (known as the Cellule interdpartementale
de coordination de la lutte contre la traite internationale des
tres humains). This group brings together representatives
of the following bodies: various ministries; the College of Public
Prosecutors and Magistrates; the police force; the government
office dealing with foreigners (Office des trangers);
and the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism.
It co-ordinates the activities of the various departments involved
in the fight against trafficking, evaluates the results obtained,
communicates information gathered by the Centre for Equal Opportunities
and Opposition to Racism, and makes propositions and recommendations
for improving the fight against trafficking.
Three shelters
are associated with the protection and assistance programme for
victims of trafficking: Pag-Asa (Brussels); Surya
(Wallonia); and Payoke (Flanders). The Centre for
Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism is responsible for
co-ordinating these three shelters.
A.S.B.L. Surya
The
Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism, in partnership
with other social groups, was given the responsibility of setting
up a new group in the Wallonia region in southern Belgium. This
group is known as Surya.
Surya takes responsibility mainly
for foreigners present in Belgium exploited through sex, but also
for any victim of trafficking in human beings. The group comes
to the assistance of victims by offering social, psychological,
medical, and administrative help. Lodging is provided for in cases
where prolonged assistance is necessary, either for integration
into Belgian society or reintegration into the victim's home country.
The group is also capable of providing legal advice upon request
and, following the provisions of a law dating from April 13th,
1995, it may take part in court action. Apart from these functions,
the group provides information on the political struggle against
trafficking in human beings.
Italy
Centre d’accueil
" Regina Pacis "
e-mail : cesarelodeserto@libero.it
Created in
March 1997 to deal with the first Albanian exodus, Regina Pacis
takes in and provides help to immigrants arriving in the Puglia
region of south-east Italy.
The shelter
runs a programme of protection, rehabilitation, and social assistance
for young women who are victims of trafficking conducted for the
purpose of sexual exploitation.
The shelter
takes victims in and offers psychological, medical, social, legal,
and administrative help. The main objective of the shelter's activities
is to enable victims to integrate permanently into Italian society
or to reintegrate into their own country.
Regina
Pacis is also active in certain countries of Central and Eastern
Europe, where it helps young victims re-establish family contacts,
in particular with very young children.
CTM-Movimondo
e-mail : ctmmovim@tin.it
Created in
1985 as a group co-operating with the third world, CTM-Movimondo
later took up the general fight against social exclusion. Since
1998, the group manages both a temporary shelter for immigrants
where assistance is offered and a shelter for unaccompanied minors.
Casa delle donne per non subire
violenza
E-mail: casadonnebo@orlando.women.it
Web: http://orlando.women.it/casadonne/index.htm
The
main objective of this group, founded in 1990, is to provide assistance
to women who have suffered physical, psychological, or sexual
violence, or any form of serious economic mistreatment.
Since 1993,
following a request made by the police, the group began to take
in and provide help to young foreign women exploited as prostitutes.
In partnership with other local groups and with the Bologna City
Hall, Casa delle donne per non subire violenza set up an
assistance programme for victims of trafficking in human beings.
The group helps victims to get back in touch with their families,
to return to their own countries, or to integrate into Italian
society if a return to their own country is impossible.
Le Onde onlus
Centro d’accoglienza e Casa delle Moire
Via XX Settembre 57
90141 Palerme
Email : leonde@tin.it
Established
in 1992, the group known as Le Onde provides assistance
and protection to women who are victims of violence or other forms
of mistreatment. At the Casa delle Moire, the group's protected
shelter, women and their children are taken in and offered psychological,
social, and legal assistance. Le Onde runs awareness-raising
activities and distributes information about the fight against
violence suffered by women. In 2001, and in partnership with other
groups, Le Onde began to extend its activities to take
account of victims of trafficking in human beings.
GIRAFFA
email : giraffah@tiscalinet.it
Set up in
1997, GIRAFFA fights against violence suffered by women. It takes
in and protects victims of trafficking in human beings and offers
them social, legal, and administrative assistance.
The group
has organised awareness-raising activities and distributed information
relating to the problem of the sexual exploitation of young foreign
women, in particular through radio broadcasts in southern Italy
and Albania and through the production of a quadrilingual CD-ROM,
in partnership with a local radio station and the European Commission.
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Ireland
Ruhama
Women's Project
The organisation helps women involved in prostitution,
by making direct contact with them. Its also offers social
and psycological assistance, conselling, and training. Its
works to influence attitudes and prejudices in society.
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United
Kingdom
Change
E-mail: atp.change@sister.com
Web site: www.antitrafficking.org
Change is a women's human rights organisation, operating with
and through contacts world-wide. Its activities are research programmes,
disseminating information, lobbying and training.
In Octobre 2000, Change launched a three year programme focusing
on the international trafficking of women and girls for the purposes
of prostitution, marriage and domestic labour.
Albania
Counselling Center for Women
and Girls
E-mail: qkgv@albnet.net
The Counselling
Center for Women and Girls was created in 1996 in order to provide
psychological help to women who are victims of violence. A telephone
help-line was set up and a social and psychological help-service
was organised. The centre also runs activities designed to raise
public awareness about violence against women and, in particular,
about trafficking in human beings.
Independent
Forum of Albanian Women
E-mail: fpgsh@albaniaonline.net
Set
up in 1991, this group defends women's rights, encourages the
recognition of these rights, and promotes the place of women in
society. It fights against all forms of discrimination or exploitation
of which women might be victims.
Bosnia
Association Lara
E-mail: lara@rstel.net
The
Bosnian group known as Lara offers assistance to victims of trafficking
in human beings. Its mission falls within the framework of funding
provided by a UN trust fund.
At present, it has already helped more than 30 trafficking victims.
These victims are lodged in a protected shelter, given food and
appropriate clothing, and offered medical help. The group provides
continued assistance to victims throughout the course of any legal
proceedings. In addition, working with the IOM's Sarajevo office,
Lara helps young women in their voluntary return to their country
of origin.
Bulgaria
Animus Association Foundation
E-mail
:
animus@mbox.cit.bg
The
Animus Association Foundation is a group set up to provide help
and support to women who are victims of violence. The group manages
a rehabilitation centre for Bulgarian women who have been exploited
outside the country, as well as for victims from Ukraine, Lithuania,
Moldavia, and Romania.
Since
1998, this foundation has been the Bulgarian partner of La
Strada, the prevention programme set up to fight trafficking
in human beings in Central and Eastern Europe. La Strada
is co-funded by the European Union and the Dutch government, and
is carried out in the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Poland, Bulgaria,
and Holland.
Animus'
work deals with three specific areas:
1)
lobbying and media campaigns concerning the trafficking
of women in Bulgaria;
2)
prevention campaigns directed at various groups considered
to be at risk, such as young women, students, the unemployed,
and girls in orphanages;
3)
protection and assistance programmes for
victims. Animus offers to trafficking victims psychological
help, lodging in a shelter, a reintegration programme, and an
urgent humanitarian aid programme. A 24-hour help-line enables
victims to make contact with the group and obtain information
about specialised assistance programmes and the risks of trafficking
in human beings.
Animus
co-operates with various institutions: the ministry of health,
the national employment agency, the ministry of the interior,
the border police, and other local NGOs.
Czech
Republic
La Strada- Czech
Republic
E-mail : lastrada@ecn.cz
Site web : www.ecn.cz/lastrada
La Strada Czech Republic, a non-profit-making organisation
set up in 1995, is part of the international La Strada
programme co-financed by the European Commission and the Dutch
government.
Within
the framework of preventive activities against the trafficking
of women, the Czech arm of La Strada organises meetings
with young Czech women in order to inform them of the dangers
inherent both in working abroad and in prostitution. The organisation
trains the professionals who work with these groups of young women,
and it also participates in the mass-information programme set
up by the IOM.
La Strada organises national and international lobbying to improve
legislation for the protection of trafficking victims.
It
offers assistance and protection not only to young Czech women
who are victims of trafficking and have been exploited abroad,
but also to foreign victims of trafficking exploited in the Czech
Republic. The assistance programme makes provisions for the lodging
of victims in protected centres, psychological and medical help,
legal assistance, and social support. Its objective is to support
victims in their move towards independence and social reintegration.
Hungary
White Ring Public Benefit Association
This
group offers social, psychological, financial, and legal assistance
to victims as well as members of their families.
NANE
Email : nane@posta.net
Nane works
with women and children who are victims of violence. The group
has set up a telephone line for providing help and information.
Following a campaign against trafficking, organised in conjunction
with the European Union, the International Organization for Migration
(IOM), and the Hungarian government, Nane's telephone service
is now accessible to victims of trafficking in human beings.
Escape
Set up in
1996, this group aims to prevent prostitution, enforced prostitution,
and trafficking. It protects victims and offers them the assistance
and support necessary to reintegrate into society.
Romania
" Conexiuni "
foundation
E-mail: Exiuni@mail.recep.ro
Set
up in 1994, the Conexiuni Foundation aims to prevent and
fight violence against women and children as well as to assist
victims of such violence.
Save the Children
Suceava
E-mail oscsv@assist.ro
The goal of
Save the Children Suceava is to promote and defend children's
rights as they are set out in the UN convention of November 20th,
1989. Save the Children helps and protects children in difficulty,
in particular children who are victims of abuse or violence, street
children, or children of families in difficulty. Its activities
centre around education, awareness-raising campaigns, direct interventions,
and lobbying to improve legislation. In partnership with the IOM,
Save the Children Suceava created a counselling centre
for children and their families. This centre aims to help children
and young women who are victims of trafficking in human beings.
These victims have been exploited abroad and the centre offers
them social and medical help, psychological counselling, and continued
assistance as they reintegrate into Romanian society.
SEF
Foundation (Equal opportunities for women)
E-mail: sef@sef.ro
Web
site: www.sef.ro
Created
in 1995, the SEF Foundation both promotes equal opportunities
for women and men and defends women's rights. The foundation distributes
information, organises awareness-raising campaigns, and publishes
studies on women's rights as well as their function in society.
In addition, it organises training courses to help women enter
the work-force. The foundation also offers social and legal counselling
to young women who are victims of violence, in particular violence
resulting from trafficking.
Russia
Perm
Center Against Violence and Human Trafficking
Email : no-violence@narod.ru
Site web : www.no-violence.narod.ru
Created in
1999, the Perm Center is a non-governmental organisation which
fights against violence perpetrated against women and children
and offers forms of social and legal assistance to victims. The
organisation runs awareness-raising activities and distributes
information for the benefit of NGOs, the police, and social and
medical services. The Perm Center is also participating in the
development of a new law against violence and trafficking in human
beings. It has published studies on the topics of victim assistance
and anti-trafficking legislation.
Ukraine
La
Strada-Ukraine
International women’s rights centre
Email : lastrada@ukrpack.net
Site web : www.lastrada.org.ua
La Srada Ukraine was created in 1998 within the framework
of the La Strada programme, which is co-financed by the
European Union and the Dutch Government.
The group
aims to raise public and government awareness about trafficking
in women. Its main activities concern the following areas:
- providing social, legal, and administrative
assistance to trafficking victims;
- a free telephone help-line;
- research concerning violence against women;
- co-operation with legal authorities in
order to improve anti-trafficking and protection legislation;
-
prevention campaigns against the trafficking of women
and violence against women;
- co-operation with the media in order to
ensure the circulation of information about trafficking and
violence;
- organisation of seminars and conferences;
- co-operation with governmental and non-governmental
organisations both in Ukraine and abroad in order to prevent
trafficking and provide help to victims.
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