Partnership

  The Partnership:

 Association Pro Refugiu is the coordinator of the project. It is a Romanian NGO with office in Bucharest city, www.prorefugiu.org. The organization mission consist in the promotion and protection of the rights of human trafficking victims (nationals & foreigners), asylum seekers, refugees. It provides legal, social, psychological support for the target groups; it organizes periodic trainings for professionals in legal, health, social areas; it develops researches, studies on human trafficking and migration topics.

The organization is member of the networks EU Civil Society Platform against Trafficking in Human Beings, Civil Society and Fundamental Rights Platform (FRA), Global Alliance against Traffic in Women.

Association Trabe –Iniciativas para la Economia Social y Solidaria is partner organization with office in Madrid city, Spain, www.trabe.org.es It is a non-profit organization aimed to the integration of groups at risk of social exclusion, immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, minorities, women.

Its objectives are: to contribute to migrant women social and economic integration; development of programs and projects aimed at inclusion in the labor market, social integration, education and training, gender and equal opportunities, development cooperation, voluntary work and third sector; to promote social and supportive economy. Trabe has several open services that receive people with special needs (human trafficking victims, job seekers, etc.)

Caritas International is partner organization with office in Brussels city, Belgium, www.caritas-int.be. It provides support to victims of war, natural disasters and poverty, assistance for migrants in collaboration with the national and international networks to which Caritas in member.

Areas of action: reception and social support or asylum seekers, integration programs for refugees, family reunifications, guardianship of foreign unaccompanied minors, voluntary return and sustainable reintegration in the native country.

Center for the Study of Democracy is partner organization with office in Sofia city, Bulgaria, http://www.csd.bg/. Founded in late 1989, the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) is an interdisciplinary public policy institute dedicated to the values of democracy and market economy. CSD is a non-partisan, independent organization fostering the reform process in Europe through impact on policy and civil society.

Its objectives are: to provide an enhanced institutional and policy capacity for a successful European integration process, especially in the area of justice and home affairs; to promote institutional reform and the practical implementation of democratic values in legal and economic practice; to monitor public attitudes and serve as a watchdog of the institutional reform process.

Scandinavian Human Rights Lawyers is partner organization, with office in Uppsala city, Sweden, http://humanrightslawyers.eu/. It is a non-governmental organization dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights and freedoms in Scandinavia and Europe.

It implements an effective strategy of advocacy, networking and education on issues with a specific focus on topics linked to migration, refugees and human trafficking phenomenon. It provides legal aid for victims of human trafficking. SHRL is a member of the EU Platform for Human Rights, European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA).

The project is supported also by several Associate Partners

• National Institute for Magistracy Romania http://www.inm-lex.ro/
• Bucharest Bar Romania http://www.baroul-bucuresti.ro
• National College of Social Workers Romania www.cnasr.ro/
• Uppsala University Center for Research on Addiction (U-FOLD) Sweden www.uu.se
• Hela Manniskan i Malmö Organization Sweden http://helamanniskan.se/malmo/
• National Legal Aid Bureau Bulgaria www.nbpp.government.bg
• Spanish General Prosecutor Office (Immigration Department) www.fiscal.es