15-16 June: in Padua a Council of Europe training seminar for European Ombudsmen on combating trafficking of human beings

The first seminar of 2010 of the project "Peer to Peer II”, funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe, is organised on 15 and 16 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 sees 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 participate and contribute to the event, as well as the National Coordinator of the Conference of the Italian Regional Ombudsmen.

See attached the Workshop Programme.