TRAFFICKING: Measures to Protect and Promote the Rights of Victims


DRAFT
PROGRAMME

Thursday 18 October 2007

09:00 Registration of participants

09:30 Opening Session

Opening addresses by:

      Ā· Mr/Msā€¦ [high-level representative of the Serbian authorities to be determined]
      Ā· Mr Terry DAVIS, Secretary General of the Council of Europe

Chair: Ms Marta REQUENA
Head of Gender Equality and Anti-Trafficking Division,
Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs, Council of Europe

10:15 First Session

      Overview of the measures contained in the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings

        Mr Hallvard GORSETH, Administrator, Gender Equality and Anti-Trafficking Division, Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs, Council of Europe

10:45 Coffee break

11:15 Second Session

      Actions to combat trafficking in human beings carried out by the Commissioner for Human Rights, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe

    Addresses by:

      Ā· Mr/Msā€¦ [representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to be determined]
      Ā· Mr/Msā€¦ [representative of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe to be determined]
      Ā· Mr/Msā€¦ [representative of the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights to be determined]

Questions and discussion

12:00 Third Session

      Protecting the victims of trafficking in human beings: identification, assistance and compensation

      Measures contained in the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, including specific measures to protect child victims

      Ā· Ms Mary CUNNEEN, Human Rights Consultant, United Kingdom

      Serbian experience in identifying, assisting and compensating victims

      Ā· Mr/Msā€¦ [Serbian representative to be determined]

Measures and actions taken at national level in [country to be determined]

      Ā· Mr/Msā€¦ [representative of country to be determined]

13:00 ā€“ 14:30 Lunch

Measures and actions taken at national level in [country to be determined]

      Ā· Mr/Msā€¦ [representative of country to be determined]

Measures and actions taken at national level in [country to be determined]

      Ā· Mr/Msā€¦ [representative of country to be determined]

Questions and discussion

Chair: Mr/Msā€¦ [representative of the Serbian authorities to be determined]

15:30 Fourth Session

      Protecting the victims of trafficking in human beings: recovery and reflection period, residence permit, repatriation and return

      Measures contained in the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings

      Ā· Ms Carmen PRIOR, Public Prosecutor, Austria, Expert for the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, University of Vienna [to be confirmed]

      The Serbian experience with regard to a recovery and reflection period, residence permits and repatriation and return

      Ā· Mr/Msā€¦ [Serbian representative to be determined]

Measures and actions taken at national level in [country to be determined]

      Ā· Mr/Msā€¦ [representative of country to be determined]

16:30 ā€“ 17:00 Coffee break

Measures and actions taken at national level in [country to be determined]

      Ā· Mr/Msā€¦ [representative of country to be determined]

Measures and actions taken at national level in [country to be determined]

      Ā· Mr/Msā€¦ [representative of country to be determined]

      Questions and discussion

18:00 End of first day meeting

Friday 19 October 2007

Chair: Ms Marta REQUENA
Head of Gender Equality and Anti-Trafficking Division
Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs, Council of Europe

09:30 Fifth Session

      Criminal and procedural measures to protect the victims of trafficking in human beings: non-punishment provision, ex parte and ex officio application, victim protection before, during and after criminal proceedings

      The measures contained in the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings

      Ā· Mr Manuel RUBIO-GULLON, Department of European and International Affairs, Ministry of Justice, France

      The Serbian experience with regard to a non-punishment provision, ex parte and ex officio application and victim protection before, during and after criminal proceedings

      Ā· Mr/Msā€¦ [Serbian representative to be determined]

Measures and actions taken at national level in [country to be determined]

      Ā· Mr/Msā€¦ [representative of country to be determined]

10:30 ā€“ 11:00 Coffee break

Measures and actions taken at national level in [country to be determined]

      Ā· Mr/Msā€¦ [representative of country to be determined]

Measures and actions taken at national level in [country to be determined]

      Ā· Mr/Msā€¦ [representative of country to be determined]

Questions and discussion

12:40 Closing Session

Closing addresses by:

      Ā· Mr/Msā€¦ [representative of the Serbian authorities to be determined]
      Ā· Ms Marta REQUENA, Head of Gender Equality and Anti-Trafficking Division, Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs, Council of Europe]

13:00 End of the Seminar

pdf: http://www.coe.int/t/dg2/trafficking/campaign/Docs/SeminarsConf/Serbiadr...

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