Country Montenegro
Year 2018
Type of Measure Regional Initiatives
Form of Violence Trafficking

Brief Description


The National Office for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings has partnered with NGO SOS Niksic in 2018 on launching a project entitled "Improving the Service and Awareness of Fight Against Trafficking in Human Beings in the Balkans - Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo" aiming at the strengthening of the capacities of the institution's representatives in the implementation of transnational mechanisms for the exchange of information on cases of trafficking in human beings, which were developed and adopted in order to better implement the signed cooperation agreements. During the workshops, it is pointed to particular sensitivity of women and girls in relation to the phenomenon of trafficking in human beings. The workshops were attended by representatives of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare/Centres for Social Work, the Police Directorate, as well as the NGO "Montenegrin Women's lobby”.

Source of Information

Montenegro's submission for National Review for Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, Beijing+25, 2019, p.34-35

For more information: Improving Provision of Services and Awareness to Combat Trafficking in Persons in the Balkans:  Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Kosovo