The Finnish Campaign is co-ordinated and implemented by the National Programme for Prevention of Prostitution and Violence against Women in co-operation with the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has set up a National Working Group for monitoring the national Campaign.

The aim of the Campaign is to raise awareness among the general public, and to inform young people about prostitution and its connections to the global sex trade. The Campaign brings up the relation between international organised crime and national/local prostitution activities. Prostitution and trafficking in women are seen closely connected, and therefore the phenomena are not targeted separately. 

The focus of the Campaign will be on buyers and potential buyers of prostituted women and children. The Campaign also provides information on prostitution and trafficking in women and children to the authorities and non-governmental organisations. 

Activities of the Campaign 2002

Seminars and training services
Targeted for social and health care professionals/practitioners, 
frontier and customs authorities, police, prosecutors, lawyers and volunteer workers.

• Lappeenranta April 2002
• Kemi 28-29 October 2002 (in the co-operation with authorities and NGO´s from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland)
• Helsinki 25 November 2002 (Opening of the Campaign; directed at decision-makers, authorities and the media)
• Training material for the peace keeping troops

Campaign week 48

• A leaflet concerning the harmful effects of prostitution and trafficking in women and children will be disseminated to individual persons crossing the border at the frontier stations from Finland to Russia.
• A poster will be put up on display at the frontier stations by the Finland-Russia border. 

Material production

• Information leaflet on prostitution and trafficking to buyers and potential buyers of prostituted women and children
• Poster of the Campaign week 48
• Information package on prostitution and trafficking in women to the authorities, non-governmental organisations and the media. 
• The Finnish translation of the Guide to interpretation and implementation of the new UN Trafficking Protocol, published by Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (2001).
• Education material to the peace keeping troops

Additional information
can be requested from National Co-ordinator of the Campaign by sending a request to e-mail address: leena.karjalainen@stakes.fi