STRENGTHENING LAWYERS LEGAL KNOWLEDGE AND COOPERATION WITH PROSECUTORS AND JUDGES, TO PROTECT VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING RIGHTS IN THE JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS
On 8 May 2018 was organized in Bucharest a final conference concerning the project Strengthening lawyers’ legal knowledge and cooperation with prosecutors and judges, to protect victims of human trafficking rights in the judicial proceedings, implemented with the financial support of the European Commission, the Justice Program JUST/2015/JTRA/AG/EJTR/8686. The event was organized by Association Pro Refugiu with the support of its partners Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation, ECPAT Germany, KOK German NGO network against trafficking in human beings, Scandinavian Human Rights Lawyers. At the event attended participants from Romania, Bulgaria, Germany and Sweden. The role of the conference was to present the main achievements of the project and to discuss about further steps that need to be implemented in order to continue the training of lawyers and magistrates, to ensure that legal specialists are able to protect and promote the rights of victims of human trafficking in the judicial proceedings.