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| January 20, 2010 | Conclusion of the Memorandum of Understanding among Members of the Amursk Community Advisory Board In December 2009 and January 2010, representatives of Pulse coordinated the finalization of the draft Memorandum of Understanding for the Amurskiy oblast referral system, with the help of Amurskaya oblast Ombudsman Lubov Khashcheva ... Details |
| January 16, 2010 | Medical Students Gain Skills to Provide Assistance to Victims of Trafficking On January 16, trainers from the NGO Maximum conducted a training entitled “Providing Assistance to Victims of Trafficking” for medical students at the Far Eastern Medical University, in Khabarovsk ... Details |
| December 15, 2009 | Mini-Trainings Teach Safe Behavior In December, Pulse conducted a series of mini-trainings for students of Amurskiy State University ... Details |
| December 12, 2009 | Winrock International partners took part in 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign In the frames of this year’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign, the representatives of Amursk NGO Linguistic School conducted a series of events on human trafficking prevention with financial support from Winrock International ... Details |
| December 1, 2009 | Winrock International partners took part in 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign In the frames of this year’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign, the representatives of Amursk NGO Linguistic School conducted a series of events on human trafficking prevention with financial support from Winrock International ... Details |
| November 27, 2009 | Representatives of Community Advisory Board are at the Threshold of Signing Memorandum of Understanding Community Advisory Board on Trafficking in Persons that was established with the support of Winrock International’s Referral Project, met in the Office of Amurskaya oblast Ombudsman. Representatives of NGOs, Ministry of Social Protection, and the Directorate of Investigations within Prosecutor’s Office in Amurskaya oblast took part in the event. The goal of the meeting was to plan joint activities on human trafficking prevention and provision of assistance to victims, and to discuss the draft of Memorandum of Understanding ... Details |
| November 20, 2009 | Government, Academic and Civil Society Representatives Debate Criminal Responsibility for Human Trafficking Representatives from Maximum NGO in Khabarovsk conducted an inter-university research and practice round table entitled “Challenges in Classification and Law-Enforcement Issues.” The participants discussed criminal responsibility for trafficking and trafficking-related crimes. More than 60 people took part in the event, including representatives of the Khabarovski regional court, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Far Eastern Federal District, NGOs, leading scientists and university instructors ... Details |
| November 17, 2009 | Amurskaya Oblast Ombudsman and Winrock’s Partner in Blagoveshchensk Discuss Joint Activities Tatyana Marach, representative of Winrock International, and Larissa Fokina, representative of Winrock’s partner in Blagoveshchensk - Pulse NGO - met with Lubov Khashcheva, Amurskaya Oblast Ombudsman. Issues of human trafficking and relevant human rights violations were discussed during the meeting ... Details |
| October 7, 2009 | Representatives of WI and an NGO Partner Work on Changing Perceptions of Law Enforcement Officers Towards Human Trafficking Victims Winrock organized an information meeting entitled “Peculiarities of Providing Psychological Support for Victims of Trafficking. NGO Experience of Addressing the Issue” for representatives of law enforcement agencies in Khabarovsk. The event was held at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Khabarovski krai. Twenty-five law enforcement officers took part in the event. Olga Schetinina, Director of Winrock International Representative Office in Khabarovsk, and Irina Shapirova, Director of Maximum NGO presented their experience in the issue ... Details |
| October 6, 2009 | Blagoveshchensk Students Discuss Risks of Employment Trainers and volunteers from Winrock’s partner in Blagoveshchensk - Pulse NGO - conducted a series of mini-trainings entitled “Human Trafficking – Beware!” for junior students from Amurski State University. More than 50 students aged 17-18 took part in these events ... Details |
| October 5, 2009 | Long-term work on human trafficking prevention brings positive results Two trainings were held in spring 2009 for representatives of law enforcement bodies, and two more trainings are being planned for this fall ... Details |
| October 3, 2009 | Young Leaders Break Stereotypes about Socially Vulnerable Groups Trainers from Maximum NGO in Khabarovsk conducted a training sessions for volunteers of leaders’ group on interactive instructional methods, techniques to overcome barriers in communication, and tools to examine trafficking victim perception ... Details |
| September 30, 2009 | Winrock RFE Referral Project participants receive grant to conduct anti-trafficking activities as part of “Our Rights” Week Students from the Far Eastern Affiliated Office of the Russian Academy of Law conducted events with other teenagers on living an active and healthy life, trafficking and domestic violence prevention, and other pertinent themes as part of MSI’s “Our Rights” Week ... Details |
| September 26, 2009 | A training for hotline operators was held at the Psychiatric City Center, Khabarovsk On September 26, representatives of Winrock partner NGO “Maximum” conducted a training for hotline operators at the Psychiatric City Center ... Details |
| September 20, 2009 | Khabarovskiy krai needs human trafficking victim assistance service In mid-September, the Migration service of Khabarovskiy krai received a message via e-mail from a US citizen living in the Philippines ... Details |
| September 16, 2009 | Winrock representative gave a presentation at the USAID Anti-trafficking Symposium in Washington, D.C. On September 16, Winrock Chief of Party Olga Schetinina gave a presentation at the USAID Anti-trafficking Symposium in Washington, D.C. ... Details |
| August 26, 2009 | Trainings and seminars for young leaders and mentors on human trafficking issues were held in Amurskaya oblast From August 18 till August 26 an annual meeting for leaders of student and youth associations was held in Amurskaya oblast with the support of the Amurskaya oblast government. Amurskaya Oblast Youth Public Organization “Pulse,” a partner of Winrock International, organized and facilitated these meetings ... Details |
| August 1, 2009 | Practical study guide for law-enforcement officials “Human Trafficking: Classification and Law-enforcement Issues” A practical study guide for law-enforcement officials was published in August. Its title is “Human Trafficking: Classification and Law-enforcement Issues”. The guide was compiled by a team of authors (K.A. Volkov, D.V. Ivashkin) with financial support from Winrock International through the grant assets received from the U.S. Department of State ... Details |
| June 23, 2009 | A roundtable on human trafficking issue was held in Khabarovsk On June 23, a roundtable entitled “Human Trafficking as a Threat to the National Security of Russia” was held in Khabarovsk ... Details |
| May 29, 2009 | Training for law-enforcement representatives was held in Khabarovsk On May 29-30, trainers from the Khabarovsk NGO Maximum conducted a training entitled “Psychological Aspects of Work with Human Trafficking Victims” for the representatives of law-enforcement agencies ... Details |
| May 25, 2009 | Representative of Winrock partner NGO Pulse in Blagoveshchensk learned methods of providing assistance to human traficking victims On May 25 – 29, Larissa Fokina, representative of Winrock partner NGO Pulse in Blagoveshchensk, took part in the seminar “Advanced Experience of Organizations Provided Services to Victims of Violence Including Victims of Trafficking” with the financial support of Winrock International. The seminar was organized by the Moscow Office of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) ... Details |
| May 16, 2009 | Trainings for future medical workers entitled "Introduction to the Issue of Human Trafficking" were held in Khabarovsk In May, trainers from Winrock partner NGO Maximum in Khabarovsk conducted a series of trainings entitled “Introduction to the Issue of Human Trafficking” for senior students from the Far Eastern State Medical University ... Details |
| April 16, 2009 | Training entitled “Complex Approaches and Solutions to the Problem of Human Trafficking” was held for the representatives of the Community Advisory Board under the Amurskaya oblast Ombudsman. On April 15 and 16, Nadezhda Zamotaeva and Maria Mokhova, specialists from the Moscow Independent Welfare Center Sisters, conducted a training entitled “Complex Approaches and Solutions to the Problem of Human Trafficking” for the representatives of the Community Advisory Board under the Amurskaya oblast Ombudsman ... Details |
| March 31, 2009 | Representatives of law enforcement agencies, NGOs, education and health care institutions of Amurskaya oblast discuss the creation of a Referral System for victims of trafficking. On March 31, a roundtable entitled “Interagency Cooperation as One of the Tools to Prevent Trafficking and Assist Victims” was held in the Center of Public Associations, Blagoveshchensk. ... Details |
| March 29, 2009 | A series of trainings entitled “Introduction to the Issue of Human Trafficking” for student-volunteers of the Social Science Faculty, Blagoveschensk On March 20 – 29, trainers from Winrock partner NGO Pulse in Blagoveshchensk conducted a series of trainings entitled “Introduction to the Issue of Human Trafficking” for student-volunteers of the Social Science Faculty, Amurskiy State University. ... Details |
| March 16, 2009 | Hotline for human trafficking victims in Khabarovsk At the beginning of March, an information banner with the telephone number of a hotline for human trafficking victims was placed in one of Khabarovsk’s central streets ... Details |
| March 14, 2009 | Training entitled “Providing Assistance to Victims of Trafficking” for students, future psychologists and teachers of psychology, Khabarovsk On March 14, trainers of Winrock NGO partner Maximum conducted a training entitled “Providing Assistance to Victims of Trafficking” for students, future psychologists and teachers of psychology of the Far East Railway State University ... Details |
| March 12, 2009 | Training “Human Trafficking: Social and Psychological Aspects of Assistance to Victims” in Khabarovsk On March 10-12, trainers from the Khabarovsk NGO “Maximum” organized a training entitled “Human Trafficking: Social and Psychological Aspects of Assistance to Victims.” The training was conducted by V.V. Antsimonik, a psychologist of Rehabilitation Center for the Victims of Human Trafficking in Moscow, IOM ... Details |
| March 07, 2009 | Seminar entitled “Human Trafficking Prevention” was conducted for law enforcement representatives, students and educators, Khabarovsk On March 7, trainers from the NGO Maximum conducted a seminar entitled “Human Traf-ficking Prevention” for law enforcement representatives, students and educators of the Far Eastern-affiliated office of the Russian Academy of Law ... Details |
| February 28, 2009 | Seminars entitled “Introduction to the Issue of Human Trafficking” for law and psychology students from Khabarovskiy universities On February 14 and 28, trainers from the NGO “Maximum” in Khabarovsk conducted a seminar entitled “Introduction to the Issue of Human Trafficking” for law and psychology students from Khabarovskiy universities ... Details |
| February 20, 2009 | A series of information seminars for educators and students of Amurskiy State University, Blagoveshchensk In February, trainers from the NGO “Pulse” in Blagoveshchensk conducted a series of information seminars for educators and students of Amurskiy State University ... Details |
| February 13, 2009 | Trainings for educators of Amurskiy State University entitled “Introduction to the Issue of Human Trafficking” and “Basic Methods of Organizing Work with Target Groups on Human Trafficking Prevention” In February, trainers from “Pulse” also organized and conducted two three-day trainings for educators of Amurskiy State University entitled “Introduction to the Issue of Human Trafficking” and “Basic Methods of Organizing Work with Target Groups on Human Trafficking Prevention” ... Details |
| January 28, 2009 | Blagoveshchensk Press Conference On January 28, a press conference for journalists of print and e-media was held in Amurskaya oblast’s “Amurskaya Pravda” press center office ... Details |
| October 21, 2008 | Blagoveshchensk Conference The Blagoveshchensk conference was held on October 21, with support from the Amurskaya oblast youth NGO “Pulse.” This conference brought together representatives from government bodies, NGOs, educational establishments and mass media in Amurskaya oblast to discuss regional mechanisms to combat human trafficking ... Details |
| October 14, 2008 | Creation of the Regional Mechanism of Human Trafficking Victims Protection From October 13-14, the first start-up conference “Creation of the Regional Mechanism of Human Trafficking Victims Protection” was conducted at the MVD Institute (the Far East Legal Institute of Ministry of Internal Affairs of the RF) ... Details |
