Updates from COATNET users
Caritas of Bishops Conference in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Caritas BH)
Caritas BH has produced a video clip "Job abroad, good opportunity or fraud?" alerting people to the dangers of human trafficking. Recreating the technique of traffickers, Caritas BH’s video shows false and deceiving job ads that are often seen in the local
newspapers. The goal is to make people recognise this kind of ads and warn potential victims against tempting job offers,
particularly those abroad.
The clip was aired during this year's 14th Sarajevo Film Festival's programme dedicated to teenagers. Running from the 16
until the 23 August 2008, the video was expecting to be watched by some 2,500 young people. Scripts of the clip have been included in the Festival brochure distributed to all spectators, media representatives, and
sponsors. The video spot has been displayed in towns bordering other countries, and the brochure has also been disseminated on Austrian Airlines flights between Sarajevo and Vienna. In a broader national media
campaign started in June, Caritas BH worked with different media outlets in the country to air the advert on television and
radio and to print it in newspapers.
The clip can be found at youtube
Commission for Justice Peace Human Development Human Rights Secretariat (SETIK), Sri Lanka
On 16th June 2008, SETIK organized a press conference on the occasion of release of a docu-drama "The House of the Arabian
Child " based on real stories of migrants, and a book "The Travails of Sri Lankan Migrants " - a study report prepared by
Rev. Fr. George Sigamoney (on the photo) with the Migrants unit of SETIK Caritas Kandy. This book depicts the reality of the
very painful journey of Sri Lankan women who face the battle of life. Both the book and docu-drama are dedicated to COATNET.
The Churches Commission for Migrants in Europe
Some 80 representatives of churches, governments, trade unions, police and NGOs from 15 European countries met for an international
conference and workshop on trafficking in human beings in Bucharest from 27th to 30th March 2008. The three day workshop "Christian
action against trafficking - going beyond", which was co-organised by the Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe and
the Romanian ecumenical association of churches AIDRom, looked at the particular challenges of trafficking for forced labour.
The workshop is the first of a series of CCME activities aimed at mapping and sharing best practice against trafficking for
forced labour. Click here to read CCME press release of 31st March.
