Welcome to the Headway website!

This is a website that provides a wide range of information and materials on trafficking in human beings, mainly concerning Estonia, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Poland and Portugal.

You can find:

• The national legislations on trafficking in human beings and the related provisions
• Good practices of prevention of trafficking and assistance and integration of trafficked persons
• A proposal for a European monitoring system on trafficking phenomena and interventions
• A transnational database of private and public organisations engaged in the anti-trafficking field
• The Headway publication
• The reports of the activities implemented
• and much more...
  
  

The website has been developed within the framework of the EQUAL Community Initiative of the European Union as a part of the activities carried out, through the Headway. Improving Social Intervention Systems for Victims of Trafficking project, by the following six national Development Partnerships:

• Estonia: Integration of Women Involved in Prostitution into the Labour Market (EE-6)
• Germany: Reintegration of Victims of Trafficking - Strengthening of National Supporters (DE-XB4-76051-20-20/301)
• Italy: Osservatorio e Centro Risorse sul Traffico di Esseri Umani (IT-IT-S2-MDL-258)
• Lithuania: Integration and reintegration of victims of human trafficking into working society (LT-19)
• Poland: IRIS - Social and Vocational Reintegration of Women - Victims of Trafficking (PL-11)
• Portugal: Cooperação-Acção-Investigação-Mundivisão (PT-2004-047).