” “Protecting Rom children and women from trade and slavery. This is the goal set out by the Council of Europe, which this week, in its Strasbourg premises, will start courses to train cultural mediators and skilled social workers. "Excluded from preventative measures and other initiatives against trade explains a note from the CoE -, Rom women and children, often victims of deeply-rooted prejudices and negative stereotypes, are particularly vulnerable" to the new forms of slavery. So, with the financial contribution of the Finnish and Norwegian governments, November 2nd and 3rd will see the first training session of the "Rom and nomadic division", with special cultural and linguistic attention to groups from Albania, Moldavia and Slovakia. "The goal of this training is to set up a group of Rom mediators who will work in close contact" with the nomadic populations, in particular "with the families, in order to raise awareness of the problem of the trade of children and young women". The families will also be given information on existing services and networks "offering help to the victims of the trade".” “
