Media Takes Up Fight against Trafficking

Media Takes Up Fight against Trafficking

The Human Rights Information and Documentation Centre (HRIDC) organized a seminar for journalists on trafficking related issues on the 24th of October 2005.

The seminar was held within the framework of the project ‘Stop Trafficking – StopNow’, which the centre implements together with the Centre of Research and Action on Peace (KEDE). The project is financed by the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

During the seminar, named “Media against Trafficking”, representatives of the Georgian media, Georgian state bodies and international organizations exchanged information on the issue and worked out future ideas on coordinative cooperation. Among the speakers were Mr. Alexander Nalbandov, Advisor of the National Security Council and a member of the Inter-institutional Commission against Trafficking, Marc Hulst, representative of the International Organization of Migration and Eka Gulua, journalist of the newspaper “Rezonansi”.

The seminar “Media against Trafficking” was organized by the Human Rights Information and Documentation Centre, co-financed by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

According to Ucha Nanuashvili, the executive director of the HRIDC, Georgians are still not well informed about this problem. The Centre has already organized several informative seminars for different target groups and will organize more of these in the nearest future.
Unofficially, more than 500 cases of trafficking were registered in Georgia in the last five years, but according to Ucha Nanuashvili, the real number is much higher.

A web page on the problem of trafficking will soon be launched in both English and Georgian. The centre is also preparing publications about this issue, which will be spread among the population.