Trafficking in Human Beings in Southeastern Europe - Iom

Trafficking in Human Beingsin Southeastern EuropeAlbania• Prevention materials, including comic strips, stickers, leaflets, videoof interviews with trafficked children;.• Brochures for teachers.TdH and NPF are also supporting the development of other NGOs working onthe issues of child trafficking through transfer of experience.Save the Children Albania prepared a report on traffic in children from Albaniain 2001, providing information on trafficking in young girls for prostitution andboys, primarily, for begging and cheap labour. 159 Save the Children has alsofully supported Women’s Hearth to establish their shelter in Vlora.In June 2001, an NGO coalition against trafficking in children from Albania wasformed during a conference in Corfu organised by Greek NGOs.Local women’s NGOs 160 participated in training in human rights and women’srights, in violence against women and trafficking in women, which was organisedby OSCE. Training on women rights is also an ongoing activity inwomen’s organisations.2.4. Victim assistanceOffice for Refugees signed a Memorandum of Understanding in 2001 with IOM,OSCE, UNHCR and ICMC, concerning screening of trafficked women, and illegalmigrants, asylum seekers and refugees. This agreement is one of the mostimportant developments for the identification and referral of trafficked persons,since it obliges the police to inform UNHCR about all female illegal foreignmigrants and provides the means for an initial assessment of detainedpersons, and, if necessary, intervention by the appropriate organisation.The government is also providing support and security for the ICMC/IOM shelterfor foreign nationals, and the transit centre for both Albanian and foreignnationals run by Women’s Hearth in Vlora.UNHCR is providing screening and referrals to the ICMC shelter for foreigntrafficked women.IOM is providing support for those staying at the ICMC-managed shelter forforeign trafficked women. This includes medical support – examination, testingand treatment - counselling, document processing, travel arrangementsand financial support.IOM is also planning a reintegration programme for Albanian women who havebeen trafficked abroad. The programme includes six months of capacity buildingfor local NGOs, and the creation of a Reintegration Support Network, whichwill include governmental and non-governmental institutions with capacity toprovide direct assistance to the women, and will run a shelter.OSCE, through its field stations, is monitoring and evaluating the process ofreferral and support to trafficked persons from local police stations to the shelterin Tirana.The International NGO International Catholic Migration Committee (ICMC) ismanaging a shelter for foreign victims of trafficking, who are being assistedby IOM to return home. The shelter accepts only those victims that are volun-134159.Daniel Renton, “Child Trafficking in Albania”, Save the Children report.Tirana 2001.160.Women’s Centre, Land o’Lakes, Youth Centre, Counselling Centre for Disabled People.