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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.