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Gender Task Force |
Agreement on Cooperation
between the Gender Task Force and the Trafficking Task Force
As both the Gender
Task Force and the Trafficking Task Force are recognized by the
Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe, operating in the same
region with OSCE sponsorship, a natural interest exists for cooperation.
The areas of particular cooperation shall include, but are not
limited to:
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Joint projects
of public information / awareness raising / national campaigns:
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to address
editors of electronic media in Southeast Europe of the importance
of including gender equality media programming and trafficking
media programming in regular media program schemes.
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to lobby
legislators and policymakers to improve existing anti-trafficking
policies and their implementation or to adopt strong anti-trafficking
policies where they do not exist.
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to assist
networks of elected women politicians working on improving
gender equality to advance a strong anti-trafficking agenda
in their respective legislatures.
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to provide
updated information on GTF activities and trafficking task
force for display on respective websites.
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Commitment
to include a strategy for prevention of trafficking of women
though women's economic empowerment into the Gender Task Force's
overall approach to women's economic empowerment in Southeast
Europe.
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Gender Task
Force national governmental and non-governmental focal points
will cooperate with trafficking focal points on issues of
mutual concern in each country of the SEE region. GTF focal
points likewise will assist in identification of potential
focal points in countries in which trafficking focal points
have not yet been identified and keep GTF and Trafficking
Task Force Chairs informed of national developments.
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The GTF
Task Force Chair will institute regular meetings for exchange
of information between the two task forces and the Trafficking
task Force Chair will be a member of the Gender Task Force
Advisory Board and will be invited to participate in all official
GTF Meetings.
Signed,
______(signature)_______
_____(signature)___________ Sonja Lokar,
GTF Chair Helga Konrad, Trafficking Task Force Chair
In Sarajevo
on October 21, 2000 Sponsored by:
Organisation
for Security and Co-operation in Europe E-mail: sonja@mail.tvnet.hu
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387 33 665 128,
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