Contributed by: Kora Dilic, Croatia National VAW Monitor and Vanja Mikulic, Montenegro National VAW Monitor

An international women’s project aiming to promote preventative measures in combating trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation is currently running in 14 countries. It is a joint project between the European Women's Lobby and the Coalition against Trafficking in Women (CATW). The purposes of the project are to address gaps in current anti-trafficking programs and policies that avoid focusing on gender equality, the demand, and the links between trafficking and prostitution. The project  supports women’s NGOs working in Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Albania, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Serbia, and finally Montenegro. The European Women’s Lobby set up a poster gallery of successful and creative public campaigns for combating trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation and it can be viewed on the web site of the European Women’s Lobby.  

In Croatia, the campaign was coordinated by the Center for Women War Victims and conducted by women’s organizations organized within the anti-trafficking network PETRA (http://www.petra-nvo.net).

Other posters shown within the poster gallery are for the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Hungary.