7 Sep 2011
October 5 and 6, 2011, Warsaw, Poland: The project Mario partners are organising two side events at the OSCE’s Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, bringing together hundreds of government representatives, experts and human rights activists, making it the largest annual human rights gathering in Europe.
The first side event will take place on the 6th of October, between 1 PM and 2.45 PM and will be opened by the UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, especially women and children and the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, and moderated by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. It aims to raise awareness among OSCE participating States about challenges and good practice in the protection of children who belong to particularly vulnerable groups. It is a follow-up to the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons Joint Statement on Child Protection, Especially among Migrant, Undocumented, Unaccompanied, Separated and Asylum Seeking Children, to enhance Prevention of Child Trafficking, presented at the OSCE Review Conference in Warsaw in October 2010. The side event will present a number of concrete initiatives at policy and practical levels that aim at enhancing the protection of vulnerable children and improving local and national child protection systems to prevent child trafficking.
The second side event will take place on the 5th of October, between 6 PM and 8 PM. It will present Clara Ott’s video documentary “The Long Way” which revisits six young people’s lives in Albania after ten years. Her first film “Children for Sale, stories from Albania” documented their paths as migrant children, exploited in Greece, victims of trafficking. Ela, Elton, Maringlen, Najada, Saleo and Shpetim are young adults now and have agreed to show, express and present who they are today. They were not only actors, but the directors of their own part in the film: showing what they wanted, the way they wanted. Clara Ott, the director has been there to accompany them but they – and no one else made the choice to present what can be seen. The film shows them as unique characters, each different, depicting their stories from their own individual perspective…
The film will be presented by Vincent Tournecuillert (Tdh), former delegate in Albania and child protection expert, who was the initiator of this exciting project together with Clara Ott.
For more information please contact Pierre Cazenave (e-mail:pierre.cazenave@tdh.ch)