Launch of the RENATE Research

Join us at the launch of the RENATE Research entitled: 'Legal Practitioners Work with Victims of Human Trafficking, Training Required to Undertake this Work and Resources to Aid them in Five Countries: Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Spain and United Kingdom'. The event is taking place both online and in-person.

The Religious in Europe Networking Against Trafficking and Exploitation (RENATE), are delighted to invite you to attend the launch of this new research report after 18 months of dedicated and painstaking work by the RENATE Law Task Group. RENATE commissioned The Bakhita Centre for Research on Slavery, Exploitation and Abuse, at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, to conduct research on the gaps in the training and resources required by legal practitioners of 5 European countries who work for and with victims of human trafficking.

This research builds upon previous RENATE research (June 2021) in the same countries that looked specifically at the legal assistance for victims of trafficking.

This research invigorates and emboldens RENATE to continue to pursue and advocate for better conditions and services for those victims of human trafficking who are among the most marginalised. This is the promise of RENATE: to leave no one behind and not only the victims but also those legal practitioners who responsibly defend their cases.

This significant and important research underpins RENATE’s ongoing commitment to work together with Church, State and Civil Society, in the joint desire, as outlined in specific Sustainable Development Goals, to focus on ending human trafficking. RENATE is confident to challenge judicial and civil authorities to adopt and enforce legislation that empowers lawyers to protect the victims, prosecute the perpetrators, enable a seizure of their assets, and to guarantee these assets are used for the ongoing empowerment and fulfilment of life for the survivors of this heinous crime.

There are a number of carefully articulated country specific recommendations as well as a number of recommendations specifically for RENATE that will be followed up by many of the RENATE Task Groups.