On the 10th of December Angel Coalition Members from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Petrozavodsk, Yaroslavl, Veliki Novgorod, Borovichi and Nizhni Novgorod met with representatives of Moscow City Government Committee on Inter-Regional Relations, Family and Youth, Moscow Interpol, MVD, Social Defense Committee, Committee on Education and Health Care Committee in an unprecedented move on the part of the Mayor of Moscow towards assisting Angel Coalition member NGO's throughout all regions in Russia in their preventive work against the international sexual trafficking of Russian women and assistance to returning victims of international trafficking.
In a Draft Protocol issued by the Moscow Committee on Inter-Regional Relations and ratified by the Russian Federation State Duma Commission on the Improvement of Women's Position, the City of Moscow has committed to the following: 1) Moscow City Department of Internal Affairs (GUVD) agreed to begin the investigation of suspicious tourist firms, marriage and recruitment agencies. 2) A joint council of Angel Coalition NGO's from 25 Russian regions, Federal Government and Moscow City Government Committees, legislative and law enforcement agencies will meet in February 2002 to draft a series of Victim Assistance Protocols based on international precedents. At that time, Moscow NGO's and MVD will present research on the conditions facing over 150,000 women who have been trafficked into Moscow from Russian regions, Balkans and Asia and are facing the same catastrophic consequences as those Russian women trafficked from Russia to 50 receiving countries around the world. Step by step, local and federal Russian governmental structures are becoming involved in this problem solution, and cooperation is developing between the state establishment and NGO's. Marianna Solomatova Development Director Moscow office of the Angel Coalition Juliette M. Engel, MD Founding Director, MiraMed Institute US: (206) 285-0518/285-8216 (fax) Moscow: (095) 915-4374 t/f http://www.miramedinstitute.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***End-violence is sponsored by UNIFEM and receives generous support from ICAP*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe end-violence OR type: unsubscribe end-violence Archives of previous End-violence messages can be found at: http://www.edc.org/GLG/end-violence/hypermail/
