A second workshop &study visit was organized in Madrid Spain on 28-29 March 2017, as part of the transnational project Strengthening multidisciplinary cooperation to ensure an effective referral, assistance, rights protection for victims of human trafficking, JUST/2015/JACC/AG/VICT/9221, financed by the European Commission, Justice Program.
The project is coordinated by Association Pro Refugiu Romania in partnership with Association Trabe – Iniciativas para la Economia Social y Solidaria Spain, Caritas International Belgium, Scandinavian Human Rights Lawyers Sweden, Centre for the Study of Democracy Bulgaria. The project benefits from the support of several associate partners as National Institute for Magistracy Romania, Bucharest Bar, General Prosecutor Office-Immigration Department, Uppsala University Center for Research on Addiction U-FOLD, Hela Manniskan i Malmö Organization Sweden, National Legal Aid Bureau Bulgaria.
The workshop &study visit, was organized by Association Trabe and had a multi-disciplinary approach reuniting Spanish, Romanian, Belgian, Bulgarian, Swedish legal, social and health professionals (lawyers, prosecutors, police officers, legal counsellors, social workers, psychologists, THB researchers & experts, NGOs representatives).
The event had an interractive approach allowing participants to exchange information on strategies to combat human trafficking, assistance services for victims, national/transnational cooperation on THB cases. The first day thematic focused on legal framework to combat human trafficking; police strategies and coordination in THB cases; the specialization of Spanish lawyers through trainings supported by local Bars Associations (as the Madrid Bar); analyze case studies. As part of the second day participants learned about the identification procedures of THB victims in Spanish borders and the collboration with social entities from origin countries; the international protection, asylum procedures and its relation to victims of human trafficking, psycho-social intervention models.
The event benefited from the participation of relevant Spanish stakeholders such as the Public Prosecutor Office, National Police – UCRIF (Central Unit against Immigration Trafficking Networks and Illicit documents), Civil Guards Force – Central Operative Unit, Madrid Lawyers Bar, UNHCR-Spain Office, ACCEM, Cruz Blanca Foundation, Pablo de Olavide University.
