Date and time: 25.11.2014 - 10.00 am
Location: Plovdiv BTA press center
Beneficiary: Gender Alternatives Foundation
Partner:Animus Association Foundation
www.animusassociation.org
Theme: Presentation of project BG05/755 "Together – to ensure justice for vulnerable groups of people"
Participants: Gender Alternatives Foundation team
For a third consecutive year Gender Alternatives Foundation (GAF) and Zonta - club Plovdiv join forces and say NO to violence against women and girls!
The campaign "16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence" is a global campaign aimed at various forms of violence against women. It starts on 25 November - International Day for the elimination of gender-based violence, and continues until December 10 - International Day of Human Rights. GAF and Zonta join global efforts to eliminate all forms of violence based on gender.
We are happy to announce that this year the face of our common campaign will be the actress Desislava Bakardzhieva! Ms. Bakardjieva is actively engaged with problems related to violence against women and will participate in the special discussion that we organize.
October the 18th is the day the European community draws attention to the global problem of human trafficking.
In recent years, human trafficking in Bulgaria increases. The data is provided by Gender Alternatives Foundation and the Bulgarian Red Cross in Plovdiv. Both organizations are actively involved in the prevention and eradication of trafficking in human beings. During the last seven years sexual and labor exploitation of Bulgarian citizens has increased three times. In 2013 trafficking victims in Bulgaria were 700. In the region of Plovdiv 71 women and girls were recognized as victims of trafficking. At the same time, the number of court cases has been decreasing. The cities of Varna, Burgas, Ruse, Plovdiv and Blagoevgrad are the ones with the highest degrees of trafficking.
What is trafficking in human beings?
HOME/2013/ISEC/AG/THB/4000005340 (15.09.2014 – 15.09.2016)
Co-funded by the Prevention of and Fight against Crime Programme of the European Union
On 25-26.09.2014, the first Steering Committee meeting under the project “THB: from exit to insertion, barriers and leverage” was organized in Paris, France.
On behalf of the leading organization - Amicale du Nid, Juliet Christmann – the Project coordinator took part in the meeting as well as Helene de Rugy – the AdN director. In addition, social workers involved in the project participated in the meeting. Members of the financial and management bodies of the AdN were also part of the meeting.
On behalf of the partner organization - Gender Alternatives Foundation, Milena Kadieva took part in the first meeting in her capacity of a project coordinator in Bulgaria.
The meeting was focused on presentation of the project, the budget, and discussion of the implementation of the work under the project in the first six months, namely Collection and analysis of court decisions in THB cases as well as Collection of life stories of human trafficking for sexual exploitation. The meeting included also preparation of the teams of the partner organizations and their experts.
Project title: “THB: from exit to insertion, barriers and leverage”.
Project planned start date and duration: 15.09.2014/15.09.2016, 24 months.
Applicant: Amicale du Nid - Paris, France.
Partner: Gender Alternatives Foundation - Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
This project proposes to identify barriers and leverages to exit and reinsertion and to develop tools to support victims and disseminate the findings.
The project is Co-funded by the Prevention of and Fight against Crime Programme of the European Union.
Project reference number: HOME/2013/ISEC/AG/THB/4000005340.