Euro-Mediterranean Network for Youth Trafficking Prevention

National Network
Greece
Address

11 Yp.Dragoumi STR
Thessaloniki
Greece

Telephone
+30 6978 688244
E-Mail
emnytp@youth-trafficking.net
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2006
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Gender
  3. Human rights
  4. International/Cultural relations
  5. Media
  6. Research
  7. Youth and education
General Information
EMNYTP is composed of non-governmental organizations, governmental institutions, and individuals from around the world. EMNYTP recognizes that the challenge to provide adequate programs on youth trafficking prevention requires concerted cooperation among non-governmental groups and organizations, national ministries and departments of education, and other governmental institutions. EuroMed Network for Youth Trafficking Prevention (EMNYTP) is the first Euro-Mediterranean partnership dealing with prevention of trafficking of young people. EMNYTP was initiated in the UK in August 2005 and registered as an independent NGO in September 2006 in Greece. EMNYTP is the only initiative in the region that provides a platform for cooperation, exchange of ideas, support for project development and databases with educational resources and experts on youth trafficking prevention.
Mission and Objectives

Goals:
- To spur a dialogue with youth and human rights organizations, refugee and migrants’ groups, and women’s and children’s rights groups among Euro-Mediterranean Partnership leading to a renewed commitment to upholding the rights of migrants and asylum seekers and a program of concrete action to achieve that goal.
- To promote collaboration and integration of anti-trafficking activities in the entire Euro-Mediterranean region to improve their long-term effectiveness and sustainability.
- To work as an instrument of coordination to encourage and strengthen co-operation among governmental agencies, local authorities, IYNGOs, local youth NGOs and groups from the countries of Europe and Mediterranean in order to streamline and accelerate existing efforts to combat human trafficking.
Objectives
o To promote the wide dissemination of information and educational materials of youth trafficking prevention;
o To conduct research on youth trafficking in the Euro-Mediterranean region and facilitate establishment of multidisciplinary teams of experts dedicated to work on youth trafficking prevention.
o To work out and deliver educational programs on human rights education, trafficking prevention and all types of specialized educational resources for youth work with vulnerable communities and groups.
o To working widely on prevention of all types of migration at risk and forced labour.
o To facilitate the communication and exchange of information between its members.
o To coordinate the activities of the member organizations in order to make optimum use of resources in benefit of the communities at risk and the general public.

Main Projects / Activities

By now our Network covers 27 countries, represented by 63 organizations and independent experts, working for youth trafficking prevention via research, human rights educational programs, human rights advocacy and lobbying for youth and immigration policy improvement.

Contact (1) Full Name
Kostas Zikos
Head of the organisation
Eleftherios Sardelis