MAKING PREVENTION WORK:
ADDRESSING THE ROOT CAUSES OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN EUROPE
Sofia, Bulgaria
4-5 December 2012, Hilton Hotel
AGENDA
03 December 2012
Arrival or participants
20.00
Dinner, Hilton hotel
04 December 2012
08.30 – 09.30
Registration of participants
09.30 – 10.00
Welcome and opening remarks
Opening addresses:
 Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe (tbc)
 Mr Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Deputy Prime Minister and
Chairman of the NCCTHB
10.00 – 11.00
Global overview – showcasing efforts to prevent human
trafficking through a human rights-base approach
Speakers:
 Mr Nicolas le Coz, President of GRETA, Council of Europe
 Ms Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, Special Rapporteur OSCE
 PACE (tbc)
 Ambassador Luis CDeBaca, Office to Monitor and Combat
Trafficking In Persons, US Department of State (tbc)
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00
Introduction to Module work
Module 1 Introduction Speaker: Ms Koeva, Deputy Chair of the Varna Local
Commission for combating human trafficking
Module 2 Introduction Speaker: Ms. Corinne Dettmeijer-Vermeulen, Dutch
National Rapporteur on THB and Sexual Violence against Children (confirmed)
Module 3 Introduction Speaker: UNODC – UN.GIFT
Module 4 Introduction Speaker: Mr Neil Howard, UK
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13.00 – 14.30
Lunch
14.30 –16.30 Module 1: Prevention among 14.30 – 16.30 Module 2: Role of research
minorities at risk, with a special focus on and data collection in the prevention of
the Roma communities
trafficking in human beings
Moderator:
Speakers:
1. LCCTHB, Health mediators and
“Sauchastie”, Bulgaria
2. Mr Cornelis Marinus (Cor) de VOS,
CAHROM
3. Mr Walter Hilhorst, Netherlands
4. Ms Kadrije Kruja, Albania ODIHR
Peer project
5. H.E. Ms Guro Katharina Vikør,
Ambassador of Norway in Bulgaria
Rapporteur:
Moderator:
Ms
Corinne
DettmeijerVermeulen, Dutch National Rapporteur on
THB and Sexual Violence against Children
Speakers:
1. ICMPD, Enrico Ragaglia, Project
Officer
2. Ms Rita Penedo, Portuguese
Observatory on THB
3. IOM (guidelines on data collection),
representative Geneva or Brussels
office
4. La Strada Moldova, Ms Tatiana
Fomina
Rapporteur: Marieke van Doorninck
16.30 –17.00
Coffee break
17.00
Summary of the discussions during the first day
19.30
Dinner
Day 2
09.15 – 11.15 Module 3: Measures to 09.15 – 11.15 Module 4: Alternative/
discourage demand, including through interactive awareness-raising methods
private-public partnerships
Moderator: UN.GIFT
Moderator: Mr Neil Howard
Speakers:
1. “End Human Trafficking Now”
2. Mr Patrik Cederlof, Swedish national
ATHB coordinator
3. Mr Darryl Dixon, Gangmasters Licensing
Authority
4. Postbank and the “NOProject”
Speakers:
1. Helen Bamber Foundation (the
Journey project) (tbc)
2. CNN “Freedom project” (tbc)
3. Ms Julia Immonen, “Row for
freedom” campaign, A21
4. ECPAT Ukraine and Moldova
5. Staff Wanted Initiative
http://www.staff-wanted.org/about.html
(tbc)
Rapporteur: Julia O'Connell
Rapporteur:
11.15 – 12.00
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Coffee break
12.00 – 13.00
Concluding session
Presentation
of
main
Moderators/Rapporteurs
recommendations
by
Closing addresses
Ms
Petya
Nestorova,
Executive
Secretary
of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against
Trafficking in Human Beings
Ms Antoaneta Vassileva, Secretary General, NCCTHB, Bulgaria
13.00 – 14.30
Lunch
14.00
Departure of participants
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