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The 2018 EU report shows that 74% of European citizens victims identified in the EU are from Romania. For non-fulfillment of the minimum requirements in preventing and combating human trafficking, in 2019 USA downgraded Romania and included it on Level 2 Watch List until 2021, risking further downgrading to Level 3 alongside those less developed states of the world.
The project addresses a component of information and awareness of the risks of human trafficking, as well as a training component to improve access to effective justice and quality services for victims. For this purpose, 10 communication tools developed in the project will be used for information in the online and public spaces, as well as other visual information materials developed by public or private actors in order to successfully complete the previously launched national campaigns.
More than 50 partnerships with schools, local authorities, media, private partners, local NGOs, etc. will be concluded within the Project and an online platform through which data will be collected on possible exploitation situations (trafficking networks and victims) will be promoted.
The Training Academy against Human Trafficking will be opened through which will be developed training materials for magistrates, policemen, gendarmes, priests, personnel from the social assistance and child protection system, journalists, teachers. The Academy will bring together NGOs and public institutions to achieve the common objective of limitation of trafficking in persons, especially minors.
The STOP-AT project assists local and central public institutions, and implicitly Romania and the EU, in collecting and reporting alternative data regarding the number of identified victims and their protection/access to effective justice.
The role of the partners is highlighted in all the activities of the project, namely communication actions, research activities and training component.