Conference “Supporting victims of trafficking to have access to their rights: French and Bulgarian perspectives”

On 26.09.2015, in the city of Plovdiv, “Maritsa” hotel, 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 “Supporting victims of trafficking to have access to their rights: French and Bulgarian perspectives”.

Participants of the Conference were about 100 representatives of the following institutions and organizations: Regional court – Plovdiv, District court - Plovdiv, Court of Appeal – Plovdiv, District Prosecution office – Plovdiv, Police officers from the District Police service in Plovdiv, Social Assistance Directorate – Plovdiv, Municipal agency for Social Support, social workers from the Plovdiv region, Local Commission on preventing of and fighting against trafficking in human beings, Regional service for the implementation of punishments, NGOs working in the area of human rights protection.

Among the participants were 23 representatives of the leading organization - Amicale du Nid: Juliet Christmann – the Project coordinator, Helene de Rugy – the AdN director, Genevieve Duche – the AdN president. In addition, social workers involved in the project participated in the conference as well as members of the financial and management bodies of the AdN.

The programme of the conference could be found here:

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