On 03.06.2016, in the city of Paris, France, a Conference was organized under the project “THB: from exit to insertion, barriers and leverage”/HOME/2013/ISEC/AG/THB/4000005340, co-funded by the Prevention of and Fight against Crime Programme of the European Union/, namely a Conference “Human trafficking for sexual exploitation. The words of the victims for a better access to their rights”.

Participants of the Conference were more than 250 representatives of the following institutions and organizations: judges, prosecutors, police officers, social workers, psychologists, lawyers, NGOs working in the area of human rights protection.

Among the participants were 8 representatives of the Gender Alternatives Foundation together with the Director of the State Directorate for Social Assistance Nadya Taneva, the Director of the Municipal Directorate of Social Policy Vesselina Boteva and the Director of the Regional office of the Bulgarian Red Cross in Plovdiv Tanya Georgieva.

The programme of the conference included: presentation of the two partner organizations – Amicale de Nid and Gender Alternatives Foundation; presentation of the project; the European policy against trafficking in human beings which focus on the protection of the victims; presentation of the results of the research undertaken under the project; presentation of the movie prepared together with victims of trafficking in human beings; evolution of the laws against trafficking in Bulgaria and France; a round table on the specialized help and support for the victims of trafficking; a round table on the public policies for a better access of the victims to their rights.

The programme of the conference could be found here: