The project “Consolidation of institutional capacity for the prevention of human beings traffic in Romania”, launched in Dec. 2008, was implemented on a 12-month period in partnership with the Institute Ludwig Boltzmann for Human Rights in Austria, as main partner, the German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation and the European Center for Public Law in Greece (secondary partners), having been financed with approximately 800,000 euros by the European Union (EU).
The project was focused on the consolidation of the integrated national system in Romania for this phenomenon monitoring and evaluation, prevention of the traffic in human beings, identification and referral of victims and their protection and assistance, especially in terms of the victims’ social inclusion.
According to the project’s initiators, the most important goal of this project was to raise awareness degree nationwide on the risks of human trafficking, through the implementation of the information and prevention campaign “Man with two faces”.
The main results of this project were the creation of ANITP and rendering it operational in the aim to conduct studies and research on the evolution of human traffic, the drawing up of a study on “Children trafficking in Romania”, aimed at the process of minors’ recruiting, and of the handbook with the title “Sociological research in the field of human trafficking”, drawn up as a practical guide on the running of prevention campaigns and raising awareness on human trafficking phenomenon.
As well, 150 representatives of the local authorities were instructed in the identification and transfer of the trafficking victims into the social assistance centers. A number of 15 experts from ANITP regional centers were trained in the development of strategies of prevention of human trafficking and of other 17 in the implementation of information strategies.
The number of human trafficking victims in the first nine months in 2009 is of 453, and the countries where Romanians were trafficked are Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic, Greece and Germany, ANITP head Romulus Ungureanu informed on Tuesday, on the occasion of the festivity marking the end of the aforementioned project.
According to ANITP official, in the same time interval, 81 persons were exploited, accounting for 18 percent of the total of identified victims.
As regards the human trafficking forms, Ungureanu pointed out that in the lead is forced labor (mainly in agriculture) – 183 victims; sexual exploitation (in clubs and in the street) – 167; forced beggary – 78, forced to commit thefts – eight, attempt to exploit through trafficking organs – two, infantile pornography – two and recruitment, transport and accommodation in the attempt to exploit – 13.
From ANITP released data it results that in the past three years the number of identified victims declined by dozens of percentage points. Attending the event were representatives of the Ministry of Administration and Interior, Romanian Police, project leaders in Romania, Austria, Germany and Greece, as well as Georg Obereiter, the Minister plenipotentiary of the Embassy of the Republic of Austria to Bucharest.
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