Training workshop of the Council of Europe for European Ombudsman on the theme of trafficking in human beings, Padova, 16-17 June 2010
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Event date:
16-17 June 2010
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Venue:
Padova, Italy
The first seminar of 2010 of the project "Peer to Peer II”, funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe, was organised on 16 and 17 June in Padua on "Combating trafficking in human beings: the role of National Human Rights Structures in protecting the rights of victims ".
This project, managed by the Human Rights Centre of the University of Padua and the Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs of the Council of Europe, aims at building and maintaining an active network of National Human Rights Institutions. In the period 2008 -2009, 12 training seminars were organized in Italy, Hungary and the Russian Federation.
The seminar in Padua saw the participation of 28 representatives of Ombudsmen from 21 European countries, EU and non-EU members. Representatives of the National Commissions against Trafficking of Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Romania participated and contributed to the event, as well as the National Coordinator of the Conference of the Italian Regional Ombudsmen.