Trafficking in children A criminal act calling for a child protection response Voksenåsen Hotel, Oslo 20–21 June 2011

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Trafficking in children

A criminal act calling for a child protection response

Voksenåsen Hotel, Oslo 20–21 June 2011

CIVIL SECURITY

& HUMAN DIMENSION

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Children’s vulnerability to trafficking is recognised in the Baltic Sea Region. National Contact Points for unaccompanied and trafficked children are functional in almost all countries in the region and police and law enforcement regularly investigate on suspected cases of child trafficking. Legislation has moved forward so as to protect child victims and prosecute those exploiting them.

Ensuring a high level of preventive actions will necessitate further use of knowledge from all actors meeting with children.

This conference is organised as a part of the Norwegian presidency to the Council of the Baltic Sea States. Fight against trafficking in human beings is one of the priorities of the presidency and the Norwegian Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion is proud to invite to this conference in cooperation with the Expert Group for Cooperation on Children at Risk, EGCC. The EGCC has been responsible for the organisation and the content of the conference.

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MONDAY JUNE 20

11.30 Registration 12.00 Lunch

Hotel Restaurant

13.30 Introduction: Mr Oddbjørn Hauge,

Director General, Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion 13.35 Welcome address: Ms Henriette Westhrin,

Deputy Minister of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion 13.45 Fighting child trafficking. The work of the European Union.

Ms Myria Vassiliadou, European Commission, EU Anti Trafficking Coordinator

14.10 Conference overview and the Expert Group for Cooperation on Children at Risk:

Mr Lars Lööf, Head of Children’s Unit, Council of the Baltic Sea States, Secretariat 14.20

Session one:

Children exploited via begging and in criminality – Interface between prosecution and child protection.

The session will focus on cases of children suspected of being exploited via begging or in criminality and the work of child protection authorities and law enforcement in supporting these children and in prosecuting the suspected offenders.

Moderator: Mr Lars Lööf, Head of Children’s Unit, Council of the Baltic Sea States Ms Line Ruud Vollebæk, Norway. Chairperson of the Board, Norwegian Association for Outreach Work with Youth: “Minor migrants in need of care and protection: How can we identify vulnerable children and how can we make the system meet their needs?”

Mr Vince Dean, United Kingdom. Tactical Adviser, UK Human Trafficking Centre: “A UK case study – Trafficking of Roma children to the UK for exploitation”

Ms Christina Voigt, Sweden. Senior Public Prosecutor, International Public Prosecution Office, Stockholm: “Begging – A way to provide or a form of exploitation?”

Mr Rudolf Christoffersen, Norway, Prosecutor and Mr Jarle Bjørke, Police Superintendent.

Hordaland Police Department, EXIT Unit, Bergen, Norway: “The Invisible People – You don’t see it until you believe it”

Ms Karin Norlin Bogren, Sweden. Head of Maria Youth Outreach Unit, Stockholm. “Outreach work for children’s protection – Social Workers in the Streets of Stockholm”.

Ms Aneta Suda, Poland. Polish Ministry of the Interior and Administration: “Exploitation via begging as a form of child trafficking – problems with identification”

Questions and discussion (15.30–15.50 Coffee)

Programme

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MONDAY JUNE 20 (cont.) 17.15

Session two:

Children in migration and vulnerability to exploitation

Session two discusses how to better protect children in migration from becoming victims of exploitation.

Moderator: Ms Eli Grut, Deputy Director General, Royal Norwegian Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion.

Ms Venla Roth, Finland. Senior Officer, Office of the Ombudsman for Minorities, Finland:

”Identifying the trafficking victims and examining the child’s best interest in the Dublin procedure:

Current state of affairs and future challenges in Finland”

Ms Daja Wenke, Italy. Independent Researcher on Child Rights and Child Protection:

“Vulnerability to Child Trafficking: A conceptual discussion of risk and resilience from a holistic and rights-based perspective”

Ms Cecilie Øien, Norway. Research Coordinator, Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies:

”Youth, migration and trafficking: Rights and challenges”.

Mr Casper Smidt, Denmark. Project Manager, Red Cross, Denmark: ”Protection measures and interventions for unaccompanied minors victims of trafficking housed within open shelters”

Questions and discussion 18.30 End of day one

19.00 Dinner at the Hotel Voksenåsen

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TUESDAY JUNE 21

9.15 Ms Jasmina Byrne, Italy. Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre.

“Systemic Responses to Child Trafficking – UNICEF Global Perspective.”

9.40

Session three:

Romeo and Juliet didn’t die of broken hearts – They died of lack of information.

Information management and data collection.

Session three discusses different approaches to handling information on children at risk of exploitation in the context of trafficking.

Moderator: Ms Eli Grut, Deputy Director General, Royal Norwegian Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion.

Ms Hanne Mainz, Denmark. Danish Centre against Human Trafficking: “Coordinated case and information management a tool to protect victims of trafficking – The Danish example”

Mr Lars Lööf, Head of Children’s Unit, CBSS Secretariat: “Information Management to Prevent Trafficking”

Ms Claire Healy, Austria. Research Officer, International Centre for Migration Policy Development: “Understanding the Phenomenon of Child Begging in Europe”

Mr Jan Austad, Norway. Chairperson, CBSS Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings, TF THB: “Data Collection Mechanisms on Human Trafficking in the Baltic Sea Region”

Ms Kristina Misiniene, Lithuania. Caritas, Lithuania: “What are Lithuanian Children doing in Norway?”

Questions and discussion (10.15–10.35 Coffee)

11.40 Conclusions, recommendations and gaps identified Mr Lars Lööf, Head of Children’s Unit, CBSS Secretariat 11.55 Close of the conference

Ms Eli Grut, Deputy Director General, Royal Norwegian Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion

12.00 Lunch at the hotel restaurant Individual departure

13.00 – 17.00 Meeting of National Contact Points and National Coordinators

See separate programme.

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Speakers

Ms Henriette Westhrin

Deputy Minister of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion

Henriette Westhrin (born 1973) is a Norwegian politi- cian for the Socialist Left Party. She served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Telemark during the terms 1993–1997 and 2001–2005.

When the Socialist Left Party entered Stoltenberg’s Second Cabinet in 2005, Westhrin was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of the Environment. After the cabinet reshuffle in October 2007, Westhrin became State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. After the last election in 2009 Westhrin became State Secretary (Deputy Minister) in the Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion.

Ms Myria Vassiliadou

EU Anti Trafficking Coordinator

Myria Vassiliadou was appointed EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator in March 2011. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Sociology and Social Re- search and a doctorate in Sociology from the Univer- sity of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

She has further been a Research Fellow at the Solo- mon Asch centre for Study of Ethnopolitical conflict, at the University of Pennsylvania. Ms Vassiliadou has served as Secretary General of the European Women’s Lobby, the largest network of women’s associations across the EU. She was further a founding member of the think tank Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies and served as its Director for seven years and subsequently as the Chair of the Board of Administra- tion. For over a decade, Myria worked as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nicosia and taught undergraduate and graduate classes in Socio- logy.

Ms Vassiliadou has worked in the European Commis- sion as a Detached National Expert in the Directorate General for Research. Further, she has served as a member of various Advisory Boards, Expert Groups and acted as a consultant at the national and international level. She has worked extensively in the area of fundamental rights, as these relate to questions of gender, trafficking in human beings, migration, ethnopolitical conflict, and the media.

She has published in several books and journals, conducted workshops and seminars, and has been actively involved in various think tanks, EU wide research projects and national/international non-governmental organisations. She has trained as a counsellor on interpersonal violence against women and also as a

facilitator/mediator on conflict transformation and negotiations, and has lived and worked in various countries both in Europe and beyond.

Ms Line Ruud Vollebæk

Chairperson of the Board, Norwegian Association for Outreach Work with Youth

Line Ruud Vollebæk is the chairperson of the Nor- wegian Association for Outreach Work With Youth (LOSU). She has been working as a street social worker in Oslo (in Uteseksjonen) since 1999, with a special focus on unaccompanied minor asylum seekers and other young migrants. Her experience from working with these cases is summarized in the guidebook

”Oppsøkende sosialt arbeid i et internasjonalt gate- miljø. Arbeid med unge asylsøkere, irregulære mig- ranter og mulige ofre for menneskehandel” (Social Outreach Work in an International Street Environment - Working with young asylum seekers, irregular migrants and possible victims of human trafficking), published by Kompetansesenter rus – Oslo in April 2010.

Vince Dean

Operational Tactical Adviser, UK Human Trafficking Centre

Vince Dean is an Operational Tactical Adviser for the UK Human Trafficking Centre, having joined it in March 2009. The centre is now part of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) and is, amongst its other roles, the UK central repository for all intelligence involving human trafficking in the UK.

Vince was previously a senior Manager within SOCA, where, as a Branch Commander for its Trent Enforcement Branch, he lead and oversaw over fifteen investigations into national and international organised immigration crime and human trafficking.

Prior to SOCA, Vince spent 30 years in West Midlands Police and the National Crime Squad (NCS), attaining the rank of Detective Chief Inspector. Roles included Senior Investigating Officer of investigations into mur- der, international drugs trafficking as well as kidnap and extortion and firearms investigations. Latterly, he played a key management role in the creation of a multi-agency investigation team within the NCS, set up to exclusively tackle international organised immigration crime, focusing on human trafficking.

In his current role he engages regularly with law enforcement and other agencies tasked with investigating cases of human trafficking, nationally and internationally. Victims in these cases involve both migrants to the UK and UK nationals.

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Christina Voigt

Senior Public Prosecutor, International Public Prosecution Office

My name is Christina Voigt. I have worked as a Public Prosecutor for about 20 years. For the last eight years I have worked mostly with domestic violence; that is women -and child abuses, rapes and other sexual crimes against woman and children and crimes within the family like murders and threats. That includes the problem with different cultures and honour crimes. I have a great deal of interest in this kind of crimes and I have always felt that I, as a prosecutor, can make a difference. One and half year ago I felt that I can’t get stuck with this kind of crimes the rest of my life and I got an opportunity to work in the International Public Prosecution Office. I now handle organized crimes over the boarders, that is mostly drugs and trafficking. One big difference between my former work and the work in the international prosecution office is that in my former work I could only start a prosecution when I was convinced that I would get a verdict of guilty in court.

Now I can also start a case when the judicial interpre- tation is not clear in an important question, when we need new legal cases to guide the future application of the law. The importance is not if someone is guilty or not, the importance is that the reasoning in support of the judgment is of high quality. This is a small part of my work but, nevertheless, a very exciting part. I really love my work and think the best part is when I am in court. Everything can happen. And that is a challenge I can’t resist.

Mr Rudolf Christoffersen

Hordaland Police Department

Rudolf Christoffersen is 42 yrs old. He is working as a prosecutor in Bergen. For the last 4 years he has been working with organised crime and trafficking in human beings. He has been a prosecutor in several trafficking cases in Bergen.

Mr Jarle Bjørke

Police Superintendent, Hordaland Police Department

Ms Karin Norlin Bogren

Head of Maria Youth Outreach Unit, Stockholm, Sweden

Ms Aneta Suda

Polish Ministry of the Interior and Administration Aneta Suda – a representative of the Migration Policy Department in the Ministry of Interior and Administra- tion in Poland; since 2007 an expert in the Unit for Traf- ficking in Human Beings responsible for initiating and supervising the tasks envisaged in the National Action

Plan against Trafficking in Human Beings with regards to the system of protection and support of victims of THB in Poland.

Under the Working Group established in the Ministry she coordinates the assignment of developing the con- cept of comprehensive care and protection for victims trafficked in Poland. In this aspect she closely coopera- tes with the La Strada Foundation that carries out the public task assigned by the Ministry called the National Consulting and Intervention Center for Victims of Traf- ficking.

Since 2008 she also coordinates the pilot project

“Programme for Support and Protection of Minor Victims of Trafficking”. The main aim of this project is to create a comprehensive and coherent system of proceedings with minor victims especially with the unaccompanied minors exploited in Poland.

Dr Venla Roth

Office of the National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings

Dr. Venla Roth serves as an expert at the Office of the National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings of Finland. Roth is the drafter of the first Finnish report on human trafficking which sought to evaluate the anti- trafficking measures and their impacts in Finland. The Report was issued to the Parliament one year ago. Roth holds a doctorate in law. Her dissertation dealing with the human rights implications of the anti-trafficking strategies and activities will be published this year by Brill Publishers.

Daja Wenke

Independent Researcher on Child Rights and Child Protection

An independent researcher on child rights and child protection, Daja Wenke has long-standing professional experience working with UNICEF and with regional organisations in Europe. She has specialised on law and policy analysis and applied research to contribute to evidence informed and rights-based policy making, programming and advocacy. A guiding interest in her work is to promote systemic approaches to the imple- mentation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, with a thematic specialisation on the prevention and response to the exploitation of children, including in the context of trafficking, and safeguarding children’s rights in the context of migration. During 2010 and 2011, she conducted a study on child trafficking in the Nordic countries for the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre and in collaboration with the UNICEF offices in the Nordic countries.

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Ms Cecilie Øien

Research Coordinator, Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies

Cecilie Øien (born 1972) holds a PhD in Social Anthrop- ology. She is a senior research at Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies.

Mr Casper Smidt

Project Coordinator, Danish Red Cross Society Mr Smidt has 11 years of experience in the Red Cross Society working with asylum seeking children and youth. The last 6 of these in the Anti-trafficking project of the RC Asylum department, targeting unaccompanied minors.

Mr Smidt Is actively collaborating with the National Board of Social Services regarding the Danish Govern- mental action plan to combat Trafficking in Human beings.

He is an international guest lecturer and expert speaker, seminar facilitator, consultant and trainer of project-related professionals and volunteers and an ac- tive member of the International Federation Red Cross Anti-Trafficking network and various Danish network.

Mr Smidt has 18 years of total experience as a social educator in various positions in GO´s and NGO´s. Plan- ning and establishing projects related to social services with a focus on empowerment, behavioral guidance and support primarily to vulnerable children and youth.

Mr Smidt has alternative experience from a long range of fields including textile business, new circus training and performance, organic farming, café management and co-owner of a contemporary art gallery.

Mr Smidt’s has an educational background in business, social education, Vedic philosophy, psychology and sports.

Ms Jasmina Byrne

UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre

Jasmina Byrne is the Child Protection Specialist working in UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre responsible for research related to violence, abuse and exploitation of children, including trafficking. Her current trafficking portfolio includes management of research into systemic responses and government policies and practices including the forthcoming study on Child Trafficking in the Nordic Countries. Prior to joining Innocenti Ms.

Byrne was Head of Child Protection in UNICEF Indone- sia where she developed some key policy and programme initiatives to strengthen protection of children from exploitation and trafficking and promote systemic responses to child protection. She has extensive experience as an independent consultant providing techni- cal support, research and programme development to governments, donors, the UN and civil society across Southern Africa, South East Asia and South East Europe

primarily in relation to violence, abuse and exploitation of children, children in care and child protection in emergencies. Ms. Byrne holds MA in International Relations and European Studies from Central European University (CEU)

Ms Hanne Mainz

Danish Centre Against Human Trafficking Hanne Mainz, social consultant in The Danish Cen- tre against Human Trafficking. The national centre undertakes the social dimensions of the Danish government’s action plan against Human Trafficking and is coordinated by the Department for Gender Equality.

My primarily tasks in the centre are to organize, de- velop and coordinate the social dimensions in the fight against human trafficking of children. Also I coordinate collaboration between social organizations and authorities nationally regarding trafficking in general, with focus on collaboration between social workers and law enforcement.

My educational background is public school teacher, but since 1991 I have worked as social worker and project manager and initiated various projects tar- geted different social disadvantaged groups such as homeless people, unemployed and vulnerable young women, drug and alcohol addicts, including 9 years of work with female prostitutes. Since 2005 my focus entirely has been on victims of Human Trafficking.

Lars Lööf

Head of Children’s Unit, Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat

Lars joined the CBSS Secretariat in June 2002. He is a qualified clinical psychologist and psychotherapist with specialisation in the fields of assessment and treatment of children and adolescents. Lars has worked in the field of clinical psychology mainly with children and adolescents with extreme and abusive experiences from exploitation but also with children suffering the effects of war and torture. Until June 2002 Lars worked for Save the Children Sweden’s unit specialising in psychological and psychosocial treatment of children suffering the effects of severe traumas. He was the initiator of Save the Children Sweden’s Hotline, fighting child abusive Internet content, a Hotline he adminis- trated until June 2002. He has written a number of articles on the subject of children, exploitation and psychological survival, and has been contributing author to several books and reports. He is co-author of the Background paper on child exploitation in Internet settings, developed for the 3rd World Congress against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents. Lars has co-ordinated several Europe wide projects where sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children in the different European countries have been addressed.

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Lars has also worked extensively with lectures and training seminars all across Europe and has contribu- ted as panellist and speaker at the 2nd and 3rd World Congresses against Sexual Exploitation of Children in 2001 and in 2008.

Claire Healy

Research Officer, ICMPD

Claire Healy is Research Officer at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) in Austria and is coordinating projects in the areas of child begging and visa regulations. She recently published a research study on naturalisation in Portu- gal. Claire ran Summer camps for children of asylum seekers in Hamburg, Germany and set up and ran a youth club for children of asylum seekers in Galway, Ireland. She also worked on after-school programmes for ethnic minority children in Lisbon. During 2007-2009, she worked as Advisor at the Portuguese Government’s High Commission for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue (ACIDI, IP). From 2005 to 2007, Claire worked in Dublin as a Research Consultant for a number of NGOs in the field of migration, refugees and separated children, authoring two reports for the Immigrant Council of Ireland, on language programmes for migrants and on state coordination of migration policy. She also co-authored a report for the on immigrants in Ireland whose status is based on their Irish-born children. She has taught on migration at Summer schools at Lisbon University Institute and at an international seminar in Poland. Claire has also worked as a translator and speaks German, Portuguese, Spanish, Irish, French, Cape Verdean Creole and basic Croatian. Claire holds a B.A. (International) in History and German from the National University of Ireland and conducted Masters research in Latin American History and Spanish at the University of Hamburg. She has a PhD (2006) in Migration History from the National University of Ireland on nineteenth-century migration from Ireland to Argentina.

Jan Austad

Senior Adviser, Royal Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police

Jan Austad is a senior adviser at the Ministry of Justice and the Police in Norway. His main responsibilities are issues on Trafficking in Human Beings. He is responsible for developing and implementing the Norwegian Action Plan against Trafficking.

Mr. Austad worked as a prosecutor in the Norwegian Police for several years, specialising in investigations on sexual crimes and crimes against children. He was posted to the Interpol General Secretariat in Lyon for three years in the Trafficking in Human Beings unit.

Before starting work at the Ministry of Justice in 2006, he was responsible for providing training for the police

prosecutors in Oslo Police Department. He is currently chair of the Task Force on Trafficking in Human Beings of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, and member of the EU expert group on Trafficking.

Ms Kristina Misiniene

Caritas, Lithuania

Kristina Misiniene is the coordinator of Caritas Lithua- nia project ”Aid to the victims of trafficking and prostitution” since 2001. She has Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Social sciences.

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AUSTRIA Claire Healy Research Officer

International Centre for Migration Policy Development Gonzagagasse 1, 5th floor, 1010 Wien

Austria

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +43 1 5034677 -2318 Fax: +43 1 5044677-2375

BELARUS

Yauheni Shevchenko

Senior Operational Officer of the Central Organized Crime Division

Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus 3 Revoliutsionnaya Str., 220050 Minsk

Belarus

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: +375 17 2187255, mobile: +375 29 6157484 Fax: +375 17 2185566

Marina Artimovskaya

Contact point of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus on cooperation with CBSS, Head of Organiza- tional Affairs Unit of NCB INTERPOL – Minsk

Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus 4, Gorodskoy Val Str., 220615 Minsk

Belarus

Vladimir Emelyanov

Deputy Head of Unit of the Division for Drugs Control &

Combating Trafficking in Human Beings

Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus 4, Gorodskoy Val Str., 220615 Minsk

Belarus

BELGIUM

Ms. Myria Vassiliadou

EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator

DENMARK Hanne Mainz Social Consultant

The Danish Centre against Human Trafficking P. Hjort Lorenzensvej 2, 1 sal, 800 Aarhus C Denmark

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +45 41 93 2529 Casper Smidt

Project Coordinator Red Cross Identification, support of minor Aske Ebbesen

Actor

Michael Boman Detective Inspector

National centre of investigation Email: [email protected] Telephone: +45 41 22 0474 Dan Holmgreen

Special Advisor

Danish Ministry of Social Affairs Holmens Kanal 22, 1060 Copenhagen Denmark

Telephone: +45 40 14 50 82 Sarah-Christine Franzmann Head of Section

Ministry of Social Affairs

Holmens Kanal 22, 1060 Copenhagen Denmark

Telephone: +45 41 85 11 16 Annette Hammershoi National Contact Point

National Board of Social Services P. Hjort Lorenzensvej 2, 1-8000 Arhus C Denmark

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +45 72423811

List of Participants

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ESTONIA Katrin Spiegel

Senior Superintendent

National Criminal Police Criminal Intelligence Bureau, Police & Border guard Board

Jöötuse 52, 10416 Tallinn Estonia

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +372 612 3874 Fax: +372 612 3812 Danika Loho Superintendent

National Criminal Police Criminal Intelligence Bureau, Police & Border guard Board

Jöötuse 52, 10416 Tallinn Estonia

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +372 612 3616 Fax: +372 612 3812 Mob. +372 52 37545 Kristina Luht Chief Specialist

Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs Gonsiori 29, 15027 Tallinn Estonia

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +372 6269 254 Ms Keete Janter

NGO On Your Own (national coordinator) NGO Omapäi

Estonia

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +372 52 30669 Ms Helen Pärna

NGO On Your Own (national coordinator) Pelguranna 21 27, Tallinn

Estonia

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +372 52 68516 Ms Signe Riisalo

Chief Specialist

Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs, department of children and families

Gonsiori 29 15027 Tallinn Estonia

Telephone: +372 6269220 Fax: +372 6992209 Email: [email protected] Lemme Haldre

Head of Tartu Child Support Centre Kaunase pst 11-2, Tartu 50704 Estonia

Telephone: + 372 7 484 666 Email: [email protected]

Liis Paloots Project Officer

International Organization for Migration (IOM), Office in Estonia

Jaana Barrot

Police and Border Guard

Department External Border Intelligence Bureau Illegal Immigration Prevention Division

15183 Tallinn Estonia

Telephone: +372 504 3345 Email: [email protected]

FINLAND

Heidi Manns-Haatanen Senior Officer, Legal Affairs

Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Department for Promotion of Welfare and Health

Sirpa Kansanaho Director

OULU Reception Centre Heikinharjuntie 66, 90620 Oulu Finland

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +358 50 45 63 154 Fax: +358 71 87 63 150 Heikki Sariola

Special Adviser

Central Union for Child Welfare Armfeltintie 1, 00150 Helsinki Finland

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +358 40 7291101 Fax: +358 40 32960299 Anni Valovirta

Senior Adviser

Finnish Immigration Service

P.O. Box 18 (Panimokatu 2 A), 00581 Helsinki Finland

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +358 71 873 3456 Fax: +358 71 873 0730 Sari Laakkonen Social worker

Emergency Social Services of Helsinki Säästö Pankinranta 2 A, 00530 Helsinki Finland

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +358 9 31043503

Fax: +358 9 7017326

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Eija Piiparinen

Supervisory Social Worker

City of Helsinki, Immigrant Services Dagmarinkatu 6, 00100 Helsinki Finland

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +357 9 31037561 Fax: +358 9 31037573 Venla Roth

Senior Officer

Ombudsman for Minorities on Trafficking in Human Beings

GERMANY Carsten Moritz

Head of Unit, competent for THB

SO 13, Federal Criminal police Office, Germany Bundeskriminalamt

65173 Wiesbaden Germany

Telephone: +49 611 55 16325 Fax: +49 611 55 45143

Email: [email protected] [email protected]

Michael Fiekers

Criminal police Officer, competent for Trafficking in children

SO 13, Federal Criminal police Office, Germany Bundeskriminalamt

65173 Wiesbaden Germany

Telephone number: +49 611 55 15320 Fax: +49 611 55 45143

Email: [email protected] [email protected]

Heike Rudat

Landeskriminalamt Berlin Dezernat 22

Otto-Braun-Str. 27-37, 10178 Berlin Germany

ITALY Daja Wenke Consultant

Jasmina Byrne

Child Protection Specialist UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre Piazza SS.Annunziata 12, Florence Italy

Telephone: +39 0552033241 Fax: +39 0552033220 Email: [email protected]

LATVIA

Mr Lauris Neikens

Member of the Expert Group for cooperation on Children at Risk

Senior Desk Officer of Children & Family Policy Dept., Ministry of Welfare

Skolas iela 28, LV-1331 Riga Latvia

Telephone: +371 67021590 (+371) 26406129 Fax: +371 6727644

Stabiņa Lāsma

Senior Desk Officer of the Sectoral Policy Dept., The Ministry of the Interior

Čiekurkalna 1. Līnija 1, K-2, LV-1026 Riga Latvia

Telephone: +371 672829674, GSM +371 29382033 Fax: +371 67219464

LITHUANIA Kristina Misiniene Project coordinator Caritas Lithania Papilio 5, Kaunas Lithuania

Telephone: +370 7 323300

Email address: [email protected] Ieva Daniūnaitė

Psychologist, project coordinator; National coordinator for EGCC

Children Support Centre Latviu str. 19A-8, 08113, Vilnius Lithuania

Telephone: +370 6 8671137 Fax nr: +370 5 2715979 Email: [email protected] Aušrine Garbačiauskienė Chief Specialist

Ministry of Social Security and labour A.Vivulskio str. 11, LT-03610 Vilnius Lithuania

Telephone: +370 5 2668143

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Rūta Pabedinskienė

Chief Specialist, Children and Youth Division Work Ministry of Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania

A.Vivulskio str. 11, LT-03610 Vilnius Lithuania

Telephone: +370 5 2668138 Fax: +370 5 2664209

NORWAY

Henriette Westhrin

Deputy Minister of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion

Eli Grut

Deputy Director General

Norwegian Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion. (TBC)

Akersgata 59, Postboks 8036 Dep., 0030 Oslo Norway

Telephone: +47 22 24 2602 Fax: +47 22 24 2719 Email: [email protected] Synnøve Bendixsen Postdoctoral Fellow

IMER Bergen UniRokkansenteret Nygårdsgatan 5, 5015 Bergen Norway

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +47 5 95800707 Jan Austad

Senior Adviser

Ministry of Justice and the Police Postboks 8005 Dep, 0030 Oslo Norway

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +47 9 4878371 Fax: +47 22 249530 Anders Cameron Adviser

Ombudsman for Children in Norway PB 8889 Youngstorget, 0028 Oslo Norway

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +47 22 993951/91109380 Fax: +47 22 993970

Maria Indiana Alte Project Coordinator

International Organization for Migration Diana Cartier

Programme Support Officer

International Organization for Migration

Ane Hagen Kjørholt Advisor

Save the Children Norway

PO Box 6902, St. Olavsplass, N-0130 Oslo Norway

Marianne Hagen Head of Section

Christine Rackwitz Advisor

Turid Glærum Senior Adviser

Department for Seniors & Social Services, City of Oslo Rådhuset

0037 Oslo Norway

Telephone: +47 23 461138/+47 982 39485 Fax: +47 23 46 14 36

Berit Johanne Hoaas

Project coordinator at Trondheim Muncipality, Human trafficking & prostitution

Trondheim municipality

Oppfølging Midbyen og Østbyen Trondheim commune

Olav Tryggvasons gt. 40, 7004 Trondheim Norway

Børge Njå

Head of Section, Section of Children & Youth City of Oslo, District of St. Hanshaugen & Oslo city centre

Espen Eriksen

Executive Officer Child Welfare Oslo City Centre City of Oslo, District of St. Hanshaugen & Oslo city centre

Trine Hjelde

Executive Officer SaLTo – Prevention of Crime in Oslo City Centre

City of Oslo, District of St. Hanshaugen & Oslo city centre

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Nina Kolbjørnsen

Head of Programmes & Advocacy Unicef Norge

Rådhusgata 4, 0103 Oslo Norway

Fax: +47 22 330009 Line Ruud Vollebæk Chairperson of the Board

The Norwegian Association for Outreach Work with Youth (LOSU)

Postboks 9331, N-0135 Grønland Norway

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +47 975 89 688 Fax: +47 22 05 77 01 Marit Grung

Head of Utekontakten in Bergen Strömgt. 10, 5008 Bergen Norway

Astrid Gerdts

Utekontakten in Bergen Strömgt. 10, 5008 Bergen Norway

Rudolf Christoffersen Prosecutor

Hordaland Politidistrikt Jan Faller

Adviser

Ministry of Children, Equality & Social Inclusion Postboks 8036 Dep, 0030 Oslo

Norway

Telephone: +47 55 943091/22 24 25 39 (cell/office) Anne Eriksen Bryn

Chairman

NAV Grünerløkka Sosialtjenste POB 6554 Rodeløkka

Marstrandsgata 6, 0501 Oslo Norway

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +47 9 9476209/23 422883 Fax: +47 23 422801

Lisbeth Fosberg Social consultant

NAV Grünerløkka Sosialtjenste POB 6554 Rodelokka

Hilde Sinober Ruud Social consultant

NAV Grünerløkka Sosialtjenste POB 6554 Rodeløkka

Inger Axelsen Head of Section

Directorate of Integration & Diversity Postboks 8059 Dep, 0031 Oslo Norway

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +47 41 453879 Fax: +47 241688

Kjersti Varang Senior Adviser

City of Oslo, Dept., for seniors & Social Affairs City Hall

NO-0037 Oslo Norway

Fax: +47 23 461436 Tove Ir. Eriksen Senior Adviser

National Coordinating Unit for Victims of Trafficking / National Police Directorate

Hammersborggt 12, 0031, Oslo Norway

Telephone: +47 48 88 83 48 Email: [email protected] Eva Hermstad

Seniorrådgivar,

Ministry of Foreign Affairs PB 8114 Dep, NO-0032 Oslo Norway

Telephone: +47 23 9 51565/9 1870935

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Per Aubrey Bugge Tenden Adviser

Ministry of Children Equality and Social Inclusion PB 8036 Dep, NO-0030 Oslo

Norway

Tel +47 22 22 03 Email: [email protected] Eli Ferrari de Carli Senior Adviser

Ministry of Children Equality and Social Inclusion PB 8036 Dep, NO-0030 Oslo

Norway

Tel +47 22 24 05 Email: [email protected] Helge Skjetne Chief Adviser

City of Oslo, Department for Seniors and Social Affairs City Hall NO-0037, Oslo

Norway

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +47 23 46 15 96

Ingeborg Kjellevold

Seksjonsleder enslige mindrearige asylsokere Barne, ungdoms- og familieetaten region vest, regionkontoret

P.B 6200, 5893 Bergen Norway

Telephone: +47 46619300 Fax: +47 55902818

Email: [email protected] Gunhild Bolstad

Adviser

Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the police Box 8005 Dep., 0030 Oslo

Norway

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +47 22 24 70 68 Eirin Førsund

Miljøterapaut, menneskehandelsteamet på Hvalstad Hvalstad Ankomsttransitt

Solstadveien 42, 1395 Hvalstad Norway

Telephone: +47 9 5184174 Email: [email protected] Kristin Andresen

Miljøterapaut, menneskehandelsteamet på Hvalstad Hvalstad Ankomsttransitt

Solstadveien 42, 1395 Hvalstad Norway

Cecilie Øien Senior researcher

Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies P.O. Box 2947 toyen 0608 Oslo

Norway

Telephone: +47 22 088728 Fax: +47 22 088700 Email: [email protected] Kristin Bakke

Responsible for trafficking issues, Adviser, Bergen Fagteam Bergen, Bufetat

Bjornsqt 1, 5008 Bergen Norway

Telephone: +47 46 619771 Fax: +47 55 321187

Email: [email protected] Hilde Larsen

Senior Adviser

Norwegian directorate of immigration Telephone: + 47 9 9505381

Email: [email protected] Jarle Bjørke

Police Superintendent

Head of Analysis division, Organized Crime Section Hordaland Politidistrikt

Allehelgensgt 6 Postbox 285 Sentrum, 5804 Bergen Norway

Telephone: +47 55 556391/+47 48 886311 Fax: +47 55 556386

Email: [email protected] Børge Erdal

Institusjonssjef

Uteseksjonen, Rusmiddeletaten, Oslo kommune Maridalsveien 3, 0178 Oslo

Norway

Telephone: +47 23 46 04 60/913 40 462 Fax: +47 23 46 04 69

Email: [email protected] Terje Kjersem

Detective Chief Inspector Oslo Police District

Post box 8101, Dep. 0032 Oslo Norway

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POLAND

Malgorzata Skorka Chief Expert

Ministry of National Education Al. Szucha 25, 00-918 Warsaw Poland

Fax: +48 22 3474253 Gabriela Kühn

Programme coordinator Nobody’s Children Foundation Ul. Walecznych 59, 03-926 Warsaw Poland

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +48 22 6160268 Fax: +48 22 6160314 Aneta Suda

Expert

Ministry of interior and Administration in Poland Ul.Batorego 5, 02-591 Warsaw

Poland

Telephone: +48 226014553 Fax: +48 22 6014556

RUSSIA

Olga Pristanskaja

Department Head, PhD in Law

Department for supporting activities of the children’s rights commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation

Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation

SWEDEN Christina Voigt

Senior Public Prosecuter

International Public Prosecution Office, Stockholm Box 70296, 107 22 Stockholm

Sweden

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +46 10 5625449 Fax: +46 10 5625483 Karin Norlin Bogren

Head of Maria Youth Outreach Unit Maria Youth Unit in Stockholm

Maria Ungdomsenhet – Ungdomsjouren

Maria Nordin Skult Desk Officer Ministry of Justice

Beridarebansgatan 1, 103 33 Stockholm Sweden

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +46 8 405 3434

Fax: +46 8 208634 Kjerstin Bergman

National Coordinator, Sweden National Board of Health & Welfare Socialstyrelsen

106 30 Stockholm Sweden

Johanna Ek Westerlund Uppsökande socialsekreterare

Ungdomsjouren Maria Ungdomsenhet

UKRAINE Lidia Drozdova

Head of Reorganization Commission, First Deputy Minister

Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine 8/10, Esplanadna St., 01601 Kiev Ukraine

Telephone: +38 44 2897185 Fax: +38 44 2897185

Email: [email protected] Nadia Riazanova

Deputy Director of State Social Assistance Department Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine

8/10, Esplanadna St., 01601 Kiev Ukraine

Telephone: +38 44 2897185 Fax: +38 44 2897185

Email: [email protected] Iryna Marchenko

Senior Specialist of International Relations and Proto- col Department

Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine 8/10, Esplanadna St., 01601 Kiev Ukraine

Telephone: +38 95 320 2022, +38 44 2897185 Fax: +38 44 2897185

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Olena Remen Deputy Director

State Department for Adoption and Protection of the Rights of a Child

Desiatynna St. 14, 01025 Kiev Ukraine

Telephone: +380 44 2785271 Fax: +380 44 2785299

Email: [email protected] Serhii Oliinyk

Head of Department for Cooperation, Legal and Financial support

State Department for Adoption and Protection of the Rights of a Child

Desiatynna St. 14, 01025 Kiev Ukraine

Telephone: +380 44 278 52 99 Fax: +380 44 278 52 99 Email: [email protected] Iryna Chubenko

Senior Agent of cases of Special Importance Department on Trafficking in Human Beings Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uktaine 10 Bogomoltsa street, 01024 Kiev Ukraine

Telephone: +38 44 2549317 Fax: +38 44 2549332

Email: [email protected] Oleg Rykun

Senior Agent of cases of Special Importance Department on Trafficking in Human Beings Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uktaine 10 Bogomoltsa street, 01024 Kiev Ukraine

Telephone: +38 44 2549317 Fax: +38 44 2549332

UNITED KINGDOM Vince Dean

Tactical Adviser – UK Human Trafficking Centre UK Human Trafficking Centre

Serious Organised Crime Agency

COUNCIL OF THE BALTIC SEA STATES Lars Lööf

Head of Children’s Unit Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat

P.O. Box 2010, SE-103 11 Stockholm Sweden

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +46 8 440 19 24 Fax : +46 8 440 19 44

Ilona Filimonova Intern at Children’s Unit Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +46 8 440 1935 Alexandra Ronkina Project Officer

Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat

Telephone: +46 8 440 19 28 Email: [email protected]

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The Expert Group for Cooperation on Children at Risk

The Expert Group for Cooperation on Children at Risk, EGCC, is a group of senior officials from the ministries responsible for children’s issues in the member countries to the CBSS and the European Commission.

Member countries are: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden.

The EGCC identifies, supports and implements cooperation on children at risk between countries and organisations in the region. It also examines and reviews areas of concern with regard to children, as identified by its network of National Coordinators and experts.

Based on these findings the EGCC adopts programmes and implements actions within areas of concern. Activities and programmes are carried out together with national authorities, agencies and organisations in cooperation with regional and international organisations.

Prioritised areas for the EGCC are:

• The protection of children from all forms of sexual exploitation – Unaccompanied and trafficked children

– Children abused by being offered money or other forms of remuneration in exchange for sex

– Children and online sexual exploitation

• The protection of children from all forms of sexual abuse and sexual violence

• The rights of children in institutions and in other forms of out of home care