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Description
The project aims to improve the capacity of law enforcement agencies to counteract and detect trafficking in human beings, illegal migration and gender-based violence and to increase support for victims of trafficking in human beings and asylum seekers (including in particular unaccompanied minors) by implementing, i.e. trainings (including cascade trainings), workshops, practical exercises, study visits, conferences, campaigns increasing public awareness.
Summary of project results
- Poland is the transit country of illegal migration - through the country, runs the main migration routes in the region of Central and Eastern Europe
- the pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus caused a change in the behavior of organized criminal groups involved in smuggling people and increased areas of potential risks – the need to improve the competence of law enforcement agencies; develop common international countermeasures; increasing access to new technologies
- Poland as the country of origin, transit and destination of victims of trafficking and illegal migration – need to strengthen measures to identify and dismantle organised criminal networks; increase the effectiveness of monitoring and control of migration routes and high-risk places (ie the Baltic Sea region, woj.: zachodniopomorskie, dolnoslaskie, lubuskie)
- the need to raise public awareness as a form of effective prevention of human trafficking, gender-based violence and illegal migration.
Supported the proper functioning of national asylum and migration management systems and ensuring the right to apply for international protection, among others, through the provision of comprehensive legal support to migrants, training of government and local government staff.
- As part of the project, over 1000 officers were trained in the scope of voluntary return, support for unaccompanied minors seeking asylum and other vulnerable persons as well as in the scope of combating and detecting human trafficking, irregular migration and gender-based violence and providing psychological support to victims of trafficking and asylum seekers;
- A nationwide awareness-raising campaign (advertising clips, posters, billboards, leaflets, public transport advertisements, internet survey) on prevention of human trafficking was organised;
- Four study visits were organised to Macedonia, the United Kingdom and twice to Germany.