Regional Information Campaign

To activate this activity and to ensure its sustainability the TF-THB is currently looking into the possibility of implementing a joint pilot campaign targeting human trafficking into Sweden from the Baltic Sea Region. The information campaign will be connected to a hotline against gender based violence in Sweden - Kvinnofridslinjen. Kvinnofridslinjen is a national telephone support line for women who have been subjected to threats and violence. Today this hotline does not receive calls from victims of trafficking but the aim is to broaden their mandate and knowledge to enable them to also assist this group. The project is planned to be implemented jointly with the Swedish National Coordinator against Prostitution and Trafficking, based at Stockholm County and the National Centre against Gender Based Violence (Nationellt Centrum för Kvinnofrid). The campaign will be called safe trip and will target travel spots in Sweden with a number to a hotline that foreign women in Sweden, who might be potential victims of trafficking or are at the risk of becoming victims of trafficking, can call for assistance. Stickers, leaflets and contact cards will be available at well selected spots at airports, ferries, bus stops and so on around Sweden to target trafficking within, from and to the Baltic Sea Region with a transit in Sweden or with Sweden as a destination.

If this pilot is successful the TF-THB will look into the possibility to run this campaign throughout the whole CBSS Region under the project period 2009-2010.