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Statement and Recommendations concerning Trafficking in Women in the Nordic and Baltic Countries adopted at the Informal Nordic Baltic Ministers' Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, April 9, 2003. In June 2001, at the Women and Democracy conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, the Nordic and Baltic Ministers of Gender Equality decided to carry out a joint Nordic-Baltic information campaign against trafficking in women. This decision was based on a proposal by the Swedish Minister of Gender Equality, Margareta Winberg. Later on the same year, in August 2001, the Nordic and Baltic Ministers of Justice decided to join the Campaign. The Executive Committee on Gender Equality of the Nordic Council of Ministers adopted, on January 16, 2002, a document setting out the objectives of the Campaign. The Committee decided that the Campaign should aim to increase knowledge and awareness among the public, and to initiate discussion about the problems surrounding the issue of trafficking in women. The Campaign is planned and implemented by a Nordic Baltic Working Group Against Trafficking in Women. The Working Group decided to use the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its definition of trafficking as a point of reference for the Campaign, as well as for the national campaigns. You can read more about campaigns,
following the links under this page. National pages contain information
mostly in national languages, and under the English and Russian you can
find information in these languages. The website is always under construction,
so please, if you have questions, or comments, contact national co-ordinators.
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