Portugal: MERCADORIA HUMANA 4 (Human Merchandise 4) - Awareness Project on Human Trafficking
ECPA 2023 (preventing trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation and other kinds of exploitation)
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The project "Mercadoria Humana 4 - Human Trafficking Awareness Project" (MH4) corresponds to the 4th edition of this intervention, which took place from 2019 to 2022 under the scope of the POISE/ Portugal 2020 program, in the Operation Typology: 3.16 Technical and Financial Support for NGOs.
The mission of this intervention was to unveil this phenomenon, promote knowledge,
and disseminate information to prevent potential victimization, repeated victimization,
empower professionals to recognize potential victims, report cases, prevent secondary
victimization, and alert society to its individual and collective responsibility in combating
this crime.
The project started on 18 December 2019 and ran until 2022.