Summary of the International expert meeting Sport Events & Child Protection June 13 th 14 th 2013, Warsaw, Poland

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1 Summary of the International expert meeting Sport Events & Child Protection June 13 th 14 th 2013, Warsaw, Poland Thursday, June 13 th Welcoming address by Maria Keller-Hamela, Nobody s Children Foundation who underlined the aim of the seminar to strengthen international cooperation and exchange good practices; Elżbieta Rusiniak, representing Polish Ministry of Interior who said that such seminar provide valuable input for the Ministry; Dorota Pater from Polish Police Headquarters who stressed that protecting children from becoming victims of sexual abuse and trafficking is a matter of priority for the Police and Laurent Pitcheral, Accor Hotels, who said that the seminar is not a matter of publicity or marketing, but reducing risks for children in the hospitality business and looking for possibilities for prevention a moral issue and a must to act. Statement on behalf of Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Dr. Najat Maalla M'jid, read by OHCHR staff Bernadette Arditi (document in the conference materials). Guillemette Vuillard, ECPAT France, Coordinator of the Don t Look away project presented overview of the problem of child sexual exploitation in travel and tourism and International Sport Events. The context of organization of this seminar is the project Don t look away!, which aims to reduce social tolerance and impunity by improving reporting and awareness of commercial sexual exploitation of children. In the project there is included social campaign around World Cup in Brazil, supported by European Union and organization SESI from Brazil. The project is led by six partners Nobody s Children Foundation (Polish ECPAT coalition), ECPAT France, ECPAT Germany, ECPAT Austria, ECPAT Netherlands and ECPAT Luxemburg. It is also disseminated in 11 European countries and 3 other countries: Madagascar, Brazil and South Africa. Attempts to explain risks associated to sexual exploitation of children during sport events have been made about 10 years ego. The campaigns usually have an aim of preventing sexual exploitation and trafficking during big sport events, but we have to remember that at the moment we don t have any empirical evidence that the problem will increase. The group of football supporters is not a group of potential abusers. The lack of empirical evidence doesn t mean that sexual exploitation is not taking place, as due to its hidden nature it is difficult to detect. Organisations participating in the project believe that the risk of child sexual exploitation will increase during the World Cup due to the following reasons: increased numbers of visitors leading to increase in numbers of potential abusers, the presence of visitors being seen by members of local communities as opportunity to generate income, differences in the living standards between tourists and local communities. The scale of sexual exploitation of children in Brazil is already alarming. Increased risk justifies this prevention action. 1

2 This conference should give us good practices and ideas that can be practical tools to guide all countries that will organize sporting events. It is important to improve dialogue and cooperation between different stakeholders. We regret that there no representative of FIFA organising committee is presents. We still hope that there is a space in their activities to facilitate dissemination of campaign message. PANEL 1: Poland and Ukraine experiences from the European Football Championship 2012 Elżbieta Rusiniak, Head of the Division for Preventive Measures, Supervision Department, Ministry of Interior of Poland introduced National programme Safer together, ensuring child protection during big sporting events: One of the priorities of public administration is to form partnerships with different social actors. The basis for creating this partnerships is Together Safer Programme run from Don t lose! campaign has been conducted in the frame of this programme. The programme covers activities under different themes, but for the Ministry the priority theme is the safety of children. The aims of the Together Safer programme include diminishing the scale of widely recognised social problems, strengthening local communities and diminishing the scale of crimes by mobilization of the society at the local level. The programme finances activities of nongovernmental organisations, as well as municipal entities. The Programme is widely accessible, however the main fields of activities now are safety in public spaces and at school. The safety of children is perceived very widely. It includes promoting safe behaviours, tolerance, combating discriminating, being fair play football fans. In the frame of the Together Safer Programme Don t lose! campaign has been conducted. When Nobody s Children Foundation presented the idea, we realised that we didn t give enough attention to the issue covered by the campaign, but at the same time we had doubts whether speaking about the topic will not increase the rate of crime. At the same time the solution to the problem in not to pretend that it is not there, but to educate and work together. Partnership within the campaign was its added value. The campaign attracted more schools and teachers than we expected. The campaign was conducted in two stages, 2011 preparation phase, 2012 implementing phase during championships. It was an important project and provided valuable experience that will guide other activities. Ministry cooperates also with research institutions. Together with Łodź University the project I m fair is being conducted. It involves engaging schools with fans of different and antagonistic football teams, meeting of different groups of youth, meeting with football players. Now the project is being replicated in other parts of Łódź region. Similarly like in the case of Don t lose! campaign, the project is expanded in response to diagnosed social need. Another example is a prevention project based on organisation of football championships for children from child care institutions. Dorota Pater, Head of the Division for Juveniles, Pathology and Prevention, Polish National Police Headquarters, Prevention Office talked about child security and stakeholders cooperation during sporting events. In 2012 there were 1344 cases of sexual abuse of children in Poland. The number of reported cases of sexual abuse of children are going down and we hope that this kind of situations actually occur less often thanks to actions taken by governmental institutions and NGOs. The rate of identification of perpetrators is stable, but we aim to reach 100%. The rate of minor victims of crimes of sexual abuse is increasing. 2

3 Important part of police activities is prevention of crimes in cooperation with many stakeholders. We get involved in all prevention activities and programmes were we can speak about safety. The number of preventive programmes directed specifically to children is on the rise (196 programmes in 2012), as this group is particularly important for the prevention of threats. In actions concerning children there are involved prevention entities, as well as criminal entities of the police, which are coordinated at regional and central level. The threats for children during sport events include going missing, demoralisation, trafficking, sexual abuse, accidents. In order to tackle them the police secures stadiums and their surroundings, promotes safe behaviours, strengthens correct attitudes and reacts in cases of breaches of law. During EURO 2012, due to increased police efforts, lower rates of communication accidents and drunk driving were noted in the areas surrounding the cities hosting the matches. Information leaflets for football supporters and foreign tourists were distributed, which also provided information on safety measures concerning children. The police was involved in Don t lose! campaign. There was high demand for trainings from the police officers and they gained new knowledge that can be used during their daily work. The police was involved in the action I m a football supporter with big s, that aimed to create positive attitudes in children toward sport as alternative to criminal activities and teach them being fair football supporters. Colonel Zbigniew Plater-Zyberk, Polish Border Guards introduced the topic of child security and border cooperation during international sporting events. Main responsibility of the Border Guard is to secure national borders and one of the tasks is to identify criminal activities, including sexual exploitation of minors, conducted by the foreigners. The aim of the Border Guard during EURO 2012 was to provide safe course of the championships by: uninterrupted flow of border movement despite increase in numbers of foreign visitors; temporary restoration of border control on internal Shengen borders; intensifying actions conducted inside the country, such as monitoring of foreign communities, monitoring foreigners travelling within the country and preventing commercial exploitation and human trafficking. One of the activities conducted during EURO was common operation with Frontex called EUROCUP Although identifying threats to children were not our main tasks, the Border Guard has many possibilities of detecting and fighting the problem, being the first authority verifying the reasons for the foreigners stay in Poland. In cooperation with Ukrainian counterparts report on threats associated with organising the championships, including human trafficking and threats to children, was elaborated. There were two important solutions that supported movement at the border: special EURO lane and simplified border control, and joint Polish-Ukrainian border patrols. Restoring border control and dissemination of information about it acted also as a deterrent for persons planning to conduct criminal activities on the territory of Poland, such as trafficking or exploitation of prostitutions. By monitoring of foreigners Border Guard officers, due to extensive training, are able to identify persons transporting potential victims of crime. During EURO 2012 around foreigners were subjected to monitoring while crossing the border or inside the country. EUROCUP operation provided support of around 120 officers from other EU countries and third countries, who were also present at ports of departure of football fans. Information to foreign visitors were provided by website, leaflets, posters, movies, infoline for foreigners. 3

4 Border Guard was involved in Nobody s Children Foundation s campaign Don t lose! and was disseminating campaign materials. The campaign provided opportunity for Border Guard officers to increase their knowledge of sexual exploitation of children. Moreover, Border Guard officers participate in 4-level training preparing them to work with the issues of trafficking and exploitation. Gabriela Kühn, Nobody s Children Foundation, Poland introduced Don t lose! campaign and preventive measures against commercial sexual exploitation of children. Don t lose! campaign has been conducted in the cooperation with Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Education, Police, Border Guard and Mazovia Voivodeship. The aim of the campaign was to raise social awareness of the problem of commercial sexual exploitation, diminish demand of commercial sexual relations with minors, increase knowledge of youth of the threats associated with risky behaviours and inform them about helpline for youth There were two lines of the campaign, first one targeting society as a whole and potential perpetrators, the other one targeting young people and professionals working with them. Prior to the campaign implementation research on attitudes and perception of the problem was conducted in Poland and in Ukraine. It showed that around 50% of respondents in both countries perceived prostitution of minors as a serious problem and aspirational prostitution was seen as even bigger problem. There were also qualitative research conducted concerning the reasons for engaging in prostitution. For the first line of the campaign there were developed and distributed leaflets, posters and billboards in different language versions. Unfortunately the materials were not allowed to be distributed in stadiums and fan zones. In the frame of the second line there were prepared, with participation of children, preventive workshops scenarios concerning child trafficking, sponsoring and risky sexual behaviours. Additional campaign material was educational board game Don t lose! a problem solving activity developing the skills of assessing potentially threatening situations and finding solutions. Professionals interested in using abovementioned materials were invited to participate in the trainings organized by the Nobody s Children Foundation. More that 1000 professionals were trained. In the frame of campaign evaluation focus groups and interviews with youth, post training questionnaires have been conducted. The workshops with youth conducted in the frame of the campaign were assessed very well. Comparison of statistics of minor victims of sexual abuse in June 2011 and June 2012 show that the numbers increased, possibly thanks to increased social awareness and reporting. During the course of the campaign helpline for children received more calls connected to sexual exploitation. Important conclusion from the campaign implementation are that prior diagnosis of the problem and consulting campaign materials with the youth were essential. It s important that the campaign materials are designed in a way that they can be used afterwards. It was possible to establish effective cooperation of many stakeholders and continue it after the campaign. Natalia Bochor, Head of the Department for Scientific and Methodical Work and Liza Rai, Head of Communications Department of La Strada Ukraine - Ukrainian experience from EURO 2012 campaign. 4

5 During preparations to Euro 2012 authorities were focusing on infrastructure development, and didn t pay much attention to risk of increase of child sexual abuse. According to estimates available before EURO of children were exploited in prostitution, 2000 sex crimes against children were committed between and Ukraine served as destination country for sex tourists. Moreover there were gaps in legislation failing to protect children from sexual exploitation. In 2011 due to administrative reform national coordinating body for child protection was eliminated and there was lack of clarity as to what kind of actions social services should undertake in child abuse situations. There is also lack of skilled professionals and child abuse is tolerated in the society. In order to address this situation it was not enough to do the campaign, but some additional activity was needed. In order to strengthen capacity of the professionals 200 persons have been trained. Campaign activities also included raising awareness among children by preventive activities and extended work of La Strada hotline. Hotline consultants were trained to deal with sexual crimes cases and cooperation with authorities was established to handle increase in cases. Umbrella campaign Let s do it together was created to cover different campaign topics such as trafficking and sexual exploitation of children. Lessons learned include benefits of intersectional cooperation and added values coming with it, such as diversity of communication channels, consolidation of resources and being able to reach more people. Umbrella campaign focused attention of media and public and raised awareness of the society. 10% increase of calls to helpline was noted, however IOM s statistics don t show the increase of child rights violations. Let s do it together campaign was based on cooperation with Ministry of Youth, Family and Sport and UNICEF. It s main component was Red Card campaign carrying five different messages on themes such as threats associated with violence, gender inequality, HIV, sexual exploitation, risky sexual behaviours. Ukrainian celebrities supported chosen messages of the campaign. In the second wave of the campaign messages concerning human trafficking and racism were promoted. Visibility survey showed that the campaign was seen by 80% of citizens of EURO cities. There were a number of events for children and families connected to dissemination of the campaign materials. The campaign was very popular among young audience and visible in the media. Another component was Second Time, promoting meaningful leisure time activities for children. Third component, Fair Play, concerned football exercises for the youth with volunteer trainers. La Strada Ukraine was mostly involved in the first component. Additionally special booklet on commercial sexual exploitation for foreign tourists was prepared in cooperation with OSCE and distributed. Joanna Garnier, La Strada Foundation against Trafficking and Slavery - experience of Polish NGOs forming part of Polish ECPAT affiliate group: In Poland there was atmosphere of fear before EURO and employees of La Strada Foundation were afraid that some kind of disaster is on the way. However, after the campaign it appeared that the life goes on. Poland is a country of origin, transit and destination, so we got a lot of questions concerning increase in trafficking and prostitution, connection between sport events and demand of sexual services. Media extensively reported on preparations to satisfy increased demand for sexual services. The fact that it was the first time for the championships to be organized in post communist country could affect them. Also some police officers suggested that the demand can go up, as football fans will leave their female partners at home. During the championships in Germany it appeared that not only men, but also women and families with children came, so the demand did not increase. The situation could look different in 5

6 Poland, so we didn t know what to expect and tried to get prepared. In order to do that we became partners of Safe Games Poland, we had more volunteers available 24hours a day, prepared more places in the shelter, as well as food and medicines. We informed institutions in the EURO cities and partner organisations about our offer. We assumed that there will be more cases of trafficking identified, but we didn t know what form of exploitation will they be associated with. We expected more case of forced labour, exploitation in begging, runaway teenagers at risk of exploitation, sexual harassment of single women. Despite that the experiences from fan zones showed that the atmosphere was very good. So far we gathered information about one threatening situation where women were involved. Interesting publication showing connection between trafficking and sport events is GAATW report titled What's the Cost of a Rumour? A guide to sorting out the myths and the facts about sporting events and trafficking. Wojciech Gola, Association Programme Station, Poland - experience of Polish NGOs forming part of Polish ECPAT affiliate group: We didn t set up any special programme for EURO 2012, but kept in mind threats connected to EURO in our daily work. We joined Safe Games Poland initiative. Our everyday work focuses on sexual education and HIV prevention, supporting youth engaging in risky behaviours, diminishing the risks for youth involved in prostitution. We work with youth in informal settings, we offer them wide range of activities and attempt to build bridges between them and other institutions can help them. As we considered threats in every day work of sex workers we focused on reaching them with possibilities of getting support and harm reduction. We were acting in clubs were we talk with youth about threats associated with drugs and risky sexual behaviours. Moreover we conduct educational workshops and provide information for the youth on online chat rooms. The threats that we considered during EURO 2012 included increase in the number of risky behaviours, risky behaviours associated with demand of sexual services, number of sex workers, aggression toward sex workers, and commercial sexual exploitation of children. During our street working activities we noted that there were no increase in using sexual services, our clients didn t experience higher level of violence. Only few additional workers appeared in Warsaw. We had opportunity to reach football fans with information about using sexual services, aggression and violence. In clubs we noted more diverse group of people, many of them visitors from other parts of Poland and abroad. We provided them with information about safe sexual behaviours and sexual violence. Overall the championships proved to be good opportunity to carry out educational and street working activities and raise awareness about safer behaviours. Our recommendation is that it is important to inform the people coming to big sport events about ways of being safe and taking care of safety of others, to provide safety for sex workers, as well as to monitor situation in the Internet space and prostitution in flats. Discussion points: Theo Noten: There was panic before, but in the end the situation was normal. Do you consider that it was worthwhile to put all the efforts? Joanna Garnier: Carrying out preventive activities always has a deep meaning. Every zloty invested in prevention in returned fivefold and every reason for it is a good reason. Perhaps the 6

7 panic was necessary for the media to live on something, but thanks to that we did something useful. We were able to draw attention to the issues we deal with every day. Wojeciech Gola: I think that the fact that in Poland the problem of sexual exploitation did not increase does not imply that the same will happen in different cultural circumstances, like in Brazil. I also agree with the point that prevention is very important. Maria Keller-Hamela: Intensified activities showed to potential perpetrators that we are alert. Prevention and raising awareness is something that should be done all year round and should be continued. Natalia Bochor: There were risks and challenges, but it was also a chance to raise awareness, to strengthen our activities and cooperation with stakeholders. Liza Rai: Germans were prepared very well, maybe that s why nothing happened. I hope that for the same reason nothing happened in Ukraine. Mariana Yevsyukova: Do Polish Police have statistics showing how many sexual crimes against children have been committed by foreign perpetrators? What kind of trainers were used in the work with youth and was there a peer to peer approach used? Maria Keller-Hamela: In Poland trainers were teachers, pedagogues and psychologists who should already work with a group of youth. Children were involved only at the level of creating the tool. Natalia Bochor: Peer to peer education was used in Ukraine with support of experienced youth partnership project funded by ECPAT. Olga Kolpakova: In all the campaigns there were partnerships with governmental authorities. What was the role private sector? Maria Keller-Hamela: In Poland we are just beginning to build social corporate responsibility. Good example of that are Accor Hotels, which joined Code of Conduct. Liza Rai: CSR in Ukraine is in its first stages and we didn t receive much understanding from the business. No private companies were involved in the campaign. La Strada Ukraine is cooperating with Avon company who is supporting activities against domestic violence. Experiences from different championships in Great Britain show that there was increase in domestic violence. Violetta Przybysz: As for Police statistics concerning the period of EURO, from artice 189a of Criminal Code (human trafficking) there were two suspects of Bulgarian nationality and from article 204 (gaining profit from prostitution) there were seven suspects of Bulgarian nationality. PANEL 2: International experiences from big sport events. Margarete Muresan (IN VIA e.v.) / ECPAT Germany - World Cup in Germany (2006). In the beginning there was a rumour about of prostitutes that will be brought to Germany for the World Cup. As the panic grew, NGOs and the police were thinking how to get prepared. There were 22 campaigns done by various organisations. One of the main campaigns, Final Whistle stop forced prostitution, was done by National Council of German Women s Organisations. The second big campaign, Getting active against forced prostitution, was 7

8 conducted by German Diakonie (protestant church). Third one was led by counselling centre for women victims of trafficking - Women s rights are human rights Stop forced prostitution. The fourth one was by Solwodi No to forced prostitution and the fifth one was by Context network of prostitutes organisation To be freer/a client. The campaigns had different target groups, the first one mainly politicians, the rest of the campaign were aiming to raise awareness of general public, potential clients and victims. 21 campaigns were focusing on forced prostitution, 1 was focusing on prostitution. Most of the campaigns took place in the country of destination, but in the frame of the Solwodi s campaign the materials were distributed in East European countries. There were different activities conducted in the frame of the campaigns, such as distribution of posters and flyers in fan zones, involvement of the media. The Final Whistle campaign was about policy recommendations in Germany and in the countries of origin. They were trying to get on board German football organisations and football players, and after critique from the media they decided to get involved. The campaign was supported by the Mayor of Berlin and some politicians. Only one of the policy recommendations concerned minors girls. It requested for establishing counselling centre for women and girls affected by violence and trafficking in countries of origin. Other campaigns tried to carry out the message how to recognise that somebody is forced to prostitution. One of the indicators for that was being a minor. The only TV spot concerning child prostitution was produced in the frame of Diakonie campaign. The slogan at the end of the spot said Prostitution and human trafficking what does it have to do with us. As for official registered number of victims, there were 33 proceeding, 5 directly connected to the World Cup. None of the 5 cases concerned minors. Total number of the identified victims in 2006 was 353. It was also noted that there was increase in sex workers, but not in the numbers of clients. Conclusions: In the campaign messages there was little difference made between prostitution and forced prostitution, what made the prejudice against prostitution stronger. Other forms of exploitation were not mentioned. The was barely any focus on minors. There were hotlines established that worked only for the period of the championships, what was not sustainable. Although it makes sense to make short campaigns, it is something we should be careful with. There is media attention that is not happening during the year. We can reach public, potential victims and clients. The campaigns can also serve as political pressure. The campaigns should be carried out all the time, not just for a few weeks, should be sustainable and use the existing system. We have to be careful about what message we deliver, especially to children, in order not to create false prejudice. Astrid Winkler, ECPAT Austria and Talia Bongni, ECPAT Switzerland - the European Football Championship in Austria and Switzerland (2008). In Austria and Switzerland we had a chance to learn some lessons from the German experience. There were no major campaigns against forced prostitution and trafficking. After the end of the games official and NGOs statistics showed that there were no increase in trafficking in human beings and sexual exploitation of women and girls. During the championships more resources, such as counselling facilities, shelters, were put in place. There were not reduced after the championships were over. 8

9 Three level prevention concept was put in place: security, help for victims, campaigns. There were agreements between law enforcement of Austria and Switzerland and neighbouring countries concerning provision of security. Help for victims was increased as a long-term strategy. Ngos used opportunity to raise awareness on the rights of sex workers. Key elements of the strategy for level one were guidelines for cooperation with different countries, training of police officers, cooperation with media. Coordination centres in both countries were established. On the second level, the resources for counselling centres were increased and helplines made available for sex workers. There were also police working groups cooperating with social partners. LEFOE, women s rights organisation and shelter for trafficked women was running raising awareness campaign. The campaign was called Delights for rights and its aim was to promote rights of sex workers. Some of the sex workers complained that there was not enough of business during the championships. In Switzerland the campaign was focusing on trafficking in women, not on other forms of exploitation. In order to be effective partnership of 25 organisations was formed. 6 ngos formed the committee. The campaign went through the EURO, over the summer and ended in September. The scope of the campaign was to raise awareness, increase protection and support, as well as identification of the victims. Lessons learned: In order to reach the public it is better to have one single campaign and not disperse campaign message too much. Coordination and cooperation at different levels is very important. Now there is an agreement among ngos, especially those working with forced prostitution and sex workers, to learn from the campaign in Germany not to make the same mistakes. Many ngos are now working with the public to diminish wrong assumption that trafficking concerns only forced prostitution. There should be guidelines, so that other countries could use experiences of others for new sport events. More research is needed on the impact of campaigns on child protection during sport events. It is important to link human rights instruments concerning children and child rights and business principles to organisation of campaigns. Jennifer Seif, Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa (FTTSA) - experiences from the World Cup in South Africa (2010); focus on the Tourism Industry. FTTSA is a sustainable tourism organisation, so we look at the issue of sport events at different angle. Moreover South Africa is developing country, so the context and some of the focus areas are different. Political context and social context of child protection during Word Cup: good legislation, but mainly on paper, high unemployment rate, high differences in living standards, 40% of population being children, high HIV/ AIDS prevalence leading to high numbers of HIV orphans and child-led households, 30,000 children sexually abused annually. In South Africa tourism is a priority sector for creating jobs and increasing GDP growth. There is national tourism sector strategy to increase arrivals of tourists to 15 million in The World Cup was seen as an opportunity for promotion as a tourism destination, economic improvement, job creation, foreign investment, infrastructure development. In the beginning there was very little concern over social issues. Later on there was panic, as the number came to media from Germany. Moreover July was holiday month. Schools were going to be closed and there were rumours that some people will try to abduct the children. There was growing attention to the problem of children staying out of school during championships. The government created a round table to coordinate services, but only existing services like helpline, were used. Economic advancement was not as good as expected because of recession. Most of the improvement was in upgrading of the infrastructure. Arrival of tourists was much less then 9

10 expected. However, after the World Cup the numbers of tourists increased, especially from other African countries. Assumed spike in child exploitation was not confirmed, but data collection is poor. Examples of child protection initiatives: Red Card campaign - umbrella campaign for different topics, led by UNICEF and ILO. It was not sustainable, as it took place only during the World Cup. Initiative Keeping Children Safe. It s aim was to provide activities for children outside of schools. Child friendly placed were created in fan parks in response to concerns about schools closure. There were leaflets distributed to tourism workers to show them how to behave in certain difficult situation as parents. Launching of the Code of Conduct. Currently there is official national standard for responsible tourism, that refers specifically to prevention of child exploitation and requires companies to provide proof of the actions taken against child exploitation. There is a lot of interest from neighbouring countries to sign the Code. Currently there are 39 signatories in South Africa. Another activity was training for child call centre staff. The aim was to help them identify incidents involving tourists. There were 366 staff trained. Legacy of the initiatives is incorporation of child protection measures in Tourism Safety Initiative. Lessons learned: There is a need for umbrella campaign, because too many organisations are trying to get their message across and it becomes vague. FIFA is not interested in this kind of initiatives, because it is interested in making profit. Late start means missed opportunities. The sooner you can start, the more you re going to achieve. In a country like South Africa the focus was on economic development and many opportunities of creating social impacts were missed. Developed countries have luxury to focus only on social issues. The question remains how to balance that two angles. Bharti Patel, ECPAT UK Olympic games in UK (2012) - focus on stakeholders cooperation. In UK child trafficking has low volume, but the impact of it is very high, particularly when we are looking at sexual exploitation of children. Policy framework in the Olympic Games was driven by five promises: making UK a world leading sporting nation, transforming the heart of London where the games took place, inspiring new generations of young people to get involved, making the Olympic Park a blueprint for sustainable living, demonstrating the UK is a creative, inclusive and welcoming place to live in, visit and for business. There was a perceived threat that sex trafficking will become a big problem, and there was a message from the Minister for the Olympics that it was not acceptable. However, there were many opposing views about connection between human trafficking for sexual exploitation and Olympic Games: there is no positive correlation, visitors come with restricted budget, it would be too costly for traffickers. There was a risk of criminalisation of sex works due to antitrafficking measures. On the other hand there were campaigns counteracting human trafficking and increased law enforcement to prevent human trafficking. Stakeholders cooperation was guided by international regulations concerning trafficking binding UK, such as Palermo Protocol, CoE Convention, as well as national legal framework. Stakeholders cooperation was based on multi agency approach and had and aim of safeguarding trafficked children during the Olympics. The objective was to provide clarity on the scale of child trafficking and adequate resources required to safeguarding trafficked children, develop integrated rapid response system from referral to resolution, training on child trafficking ahead of the games. 10

11 Safe games for children was launched by London Safeguarding Children Board. It started 18 months before the Games. In preparation to the Games the single point of contact was created - a particular phone line to inform about child trafficking cases. Comprehensive action plan was developed to handle assault cases (the assault course). Achievements included training of around 1000 frontline professionals, creating online course on basic awareness of child trafficking, which became very popular even beyond the UK, increased awareness of specialist resources and mechanisms, rapid analysis in real time of individual cases referred. Results of multistakeholders cooperation were very mixed, but great learning. There was no increase in trafficking, but more cases of referral. It was noted that many victims are UK nationals and exploitation can take the form of forced labour and criminal activities. There was a report prepared after the Games by Institute of Public Policy Research. The report gave valuable recommendations and mentioned that the threat of increase of trafficking in UK should be taken seriously regardless of Olympic Games. Improved policy response to this issue is needed. Discussion points: Anko Ordonez, ECPAT France: During the presentation of the situation in the Germany it was mentioned that there were 33 registered proceeding. Why only 5 were directly related to the World Cup? Margarete Muresan: I would interpret that 5 victims were specifically brought from Eastern Europe to work in prostitution during the World Cup, that was the connection. Anna Dąbrowska, Ministry of Interior: How does the national standard for sustainable tourism work? Did it help to prevent any incidents? Does it operate only in two countries? Jennifer Seif: National standard for responsible tourism is published by the government and indicates the requirements for companies to call themselves sustainable. Child protection is included in it. A business that wants to be in line with the standard has to show how is it fulfilling all the requirements. Signing the Code is a proof of being committed to sustainable tourism. Several countries are now working on their national standards and the role of NGOs is to make sure that child protection is embedded in this kind of standards. ECPAT Brazil: Will the increase in tourism impact the scale of sexual exploitation of children? Why it didn t happen in your countries? Astrid Winkler: Statistics didn t show any increase, because security measures are so strong that it is difficult for criminals to operate. Margarete Muresan: Real numbers are not known. There might me an increase that we don t know about. There is still more research needed to verify the linkage. Jennifer Seif: Security measures are extensive and there is a lot of focus on sport area, not on informal places, where children are more likely to be abused. We know what is going in formal spots, but not in informal areas. The problem is happening underground, so it is difficult to study it. Margarete Muresan: The risk of increased sexual exploitation in destination country for sex tourists is always higher than in other countries. Henk van Ee of the Dutch National Police: What can we do as police of countries where sport events took or will take place to share intelligence of suspects of child sexual abuse? 11

12 Bharti Patel: In London we worked very closely with national police and international police agency CEOP. CEOP plans to create data base with all the information to be shared. Jennifer Seif: I didn t have direct experience, but this was not a priority issue, because the authorities were mainly worried that something would happen to the tourists. Nobody would question the issue, but with limited time and resources it was not a priority. Mauro Mendonca Magliano: We have international cooperation through Interpol and we launched Operation Centurion. We put together all the information from 59 countries in the operation s system. We also use Interpol data. Our efforts are focused more on terrorism than social issues, however sex tourism is also important. Operation Centurion was launched for the Confederation Cup and will last during World Cup. The focus is on the security of events, but as it was mentioned the exploitation is not happening in the centres, but around big cities. Bernadette Arditi: There is a green notice of Interpol a database and alarm system. This tool is not used appropriately because of lack of cooperation. Another thing is Global Virtual Task Force network of police officers and private companies that work together to identify victims and perpetrators. Guillemette Vuillard: FIFA is focusing on profit, but also on promoting positive image of football. They will avoid any actions that can damage image of football. We started discussion with the labour union of football players and let s see. It is important to cooperate through different channels. How was the cooperation with FIFA and football players in different countries? Margarete Muresan: In the beginning German Football Federation and football players were not interested, but they changed their mind after media pressure. Gabriela Kϋhn: In Poland FIFA was represented by a joint venture, which didn t express interest in supporting the campaign Don t lose. Also, the request of the honorary patronage of Ministry of Sport for the campaign was not accepted. Jennifer Seif: Unifying the campaigns is a good idea, because it makes them more easy to choose. Instead of competing with each other it is better to join forces. That kind of initiative would be harder to be ignored by FIFA. Talia Bongni: With FIFA it is important how you phrase the theme and whom they will be supporting. Ambininarisoa Raveloarison: What happens after the events with identified children? What are the statistics for rehabilitation? Bharti Patel: In UK the state has obligation to ensure all the necessary support to identified victims from the child s rights perspective, but there are gaps in practice. Trafficked children are more prone to find themselves going missing and becoming re-trafficked. There are calls from ngos for introducing stricter measures to prevent that from happening. Theo Noten: It is important to have the whole supportive system in place regardless of the sport events. Before the events the influx of construction workers building infrastructure can also cause abusive situations. Talia Bongni: There are security issues for children that are happening during construction works before sport events, not only concerning abuse, and this is not being addressed. 12

13 Friday, June 14th Panel 1 PROGRAMME DURING THE WORLD CUP IN BRAZIL 2014 Maria Izabel da Silva, President of the National Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents CONANDA, Secretariat for Human Rights - SDH presented the situation in Brazil and the risks for children related to the World Cup In Brazil there are 62 millions of children. In 2011, the Dial 100, the hot-line (under the Secretariat of Human Rights) which is the official reporting channel of the Brazilian government) recorded complaints on violations of the rights of children and adolescents. In 2012 the daily average number of reports was , 97 % of the reported cases concerned sexual violence. Besides that, in 2011 SaferNet Brasil recorded reports on child pornography in Internet. In 2007 Federal Higway Police with the cooperation of Childhood Foundation and ILO identified approx hot spots in federal highways where children are at risk of sexual exploitation. Big sport events such as World Cup provide an opportunity for the development of the country in at least three important ways: improving infrastructure, enhancing public policies and generating business opportunities. Nevertheless, at the same time they pose many threats to children and youth due to increase in domestic and international tourism, forced evictions caused by infrastructure works, increase in alcohol and drug consumption, expansion of organized crime activitties and others. In order to protect children several actions were started at federal level by governamental bodies. Thus, the Ministry of Education introduced two prevention programmes: More education increasing the educational offer in public school with variety of optional activities including such subjects as human rights or health prevention and School that protects aimed at prevent children and youth from abuse and violence and prepare professionals for proper intervention. Ministry of Health implements ViVA programme focused on the identification of cases of domestic violence and sexual abuse by the professionals of health sector. Similar actions are undertaken as well by the Ministry of Social Development and Hunger Alleviation, Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Justice and Secretariat of Policies for Women and others. Brazilian Sekretariat of Human Rights puts focus on prevention of child sexual exploitation and assistance to the victims. It develops plans and programmes together with NGO s at the central level which are then implemented in all the country. The programme for this years constitutes the combination of integrated activities aimed at protection of children and youth that are founded by both Brazilian government and private donors. The Confederation Cup starting in Brazil will be a rehearsal for the Word Cup and it will show what works out, what doesn t and what need to be improved. Tiana Sento Se, President of ECPAT Brazil presented the child protection system in Brazil and the actions planned for the World Cup 2014 by NGO s. According to Brazilian legislation, a child is every person below 12 years old and adolescent everyone between 12 and below 18. Due to the political and administrative system of Brazil which is a union of 26 states and one federal district the child protection system is very complex and involves many actors at central, regional and local level. In order to use well the limited resources and undertake the efficient actions it is necessary to join forces and work together. Therefore, different organizations working in the field of child protection such as UNICEF, 13

14 decided to cooperate together with ECPAT Brazil for protection children and adolescents in the context of major sport events and principally World Cup in First milestone was to draft a common strategic plan, identify main priorities, and create common agenda. The National Committee was created in Rio Janeiro than subsequently local committees in five cities were in established. The focus was put on local needs, therefore local agendas and action plans were set up in order to make sure that all the stakeholders know what to do in case of any kind of violations of the rights of children and adolescents. National committee as well as local committees brings together NGO s and local governments which makes them more effective. Within the common agenda different educational, information and raising awareness actions has been implemented. One of the projects is the mobile application based on GPS system mapping points where the help and assistance will be provided. Another one Adolescentes conect@dos por uma copa sem Violencia addresses young people through Internet and social media raising their awareness on the risks related to the World Cup and the prevention measures. There also actions targeted tourism and hospitality business aimed at protecting children against sexual violence and exploitation. Dr. Mauro Mendonça Magliano, Secretariat for Major Event Security in Brazil, Justice Ministry of Brazil presented the steps undertaken by the Ministry of Justice in order to ensure the security of children and adolescents during the major sport events. Brazilian Ministry of Justice is in charge of combating child sexual exploitation since In 2007 the Federal Police in partnership with Childhood foundation and ILO identified child and youth sexual exploitation vulnerable spots in federal roads in Brazil, which allowed to design more effective prevention and assistance activities carried out by governmental and nongovernmental actors. The role of Major Events Security Secretariat (SESGI) is the integration of public security agencies of federal, state and municipal governments. The Integrated Control System consists of a network of command centers in different cities, as well as mobile centers, each equipped with advanced communication and monitoring equipment to manage massive public events. The security plan for the World Cup 2014 was developed on the basis of different working strategies encompassing risk analysis, integrated planning, contract assignment, technology and equipment, command and control system and training. The good coordination is a key to success in such big undertaking in order to ensure that everybody knows what to do in different kind of incidents ranging from petty crimes to terrorist attacks. SESGI invested a lot of efforts and resources not only to ensure the security of the upcoming massive events but also to guarantee the protection of human rights already in the planning stage, that is why the Secretariat for Human Rights is part of National Command and Control Network (CICN). There will be 4870 security agents from the host cities trained in the field of child protection against sexual exploitation. The special focus will be put also on the training and raising awareness of the staff of hospitality and tourism industry in scope of child protection. In the stadium security zones there will human rights observers in direct contact with local Command and Control Networks and Protection Committees. Phillip Galland, the director of ECPAT France presented Don t look away campaign launched in October 2012 in Paris and implemented in Brazil and Europe. At the beginning the importance of the cooperation of different stakeholders and the development of one campaign and one key visual instead of five or six like in case of the World Cup in South Africa was highlighted. There are four main objectives of Don t look away campaign. First is to raise awareness of travelers and general public on Child Sex Tourism with a focus on international sporting events. Second one is to analyze the feasibility of implementing or strengthening reporting structures in 5 Sub-Saharan countries. Other objective is to create or 14

15 reinforce online reporting mechanisms in 16 European countries, in collaboration with the national Police and promote reporting of case of abuses. The last on is aimed at building capacities for professionals, future professionals and local authorities and lobbying in order to involve governmental actors in the camp. In Europe the campaign will be disseminated mainly by ECPAT network and in Brazil by SESI. Speakers Cleude Gomes Executive Secretary of National Council of Social Service for Industry of Brazil (SESI) and Osvaldo Bargas - Chief of the International department of National Council of SESI presented the project Vira vida (Change your life) and SESI. Vira vida program promotes increase of educational level and the vocational training of teenagers and young people aged from large families, with low-income residing in the outskirts of large cities (favelas) and facing extremely vulnerable situations or being subject to sexual exploitation. The program ensures the social and professional inclusion of students, whether through self-management, cooperatives, vocational training or by providing them a first job opportunity, thus increasing family income of participants who are granted a scholarship during one year. The approach of the ViraVida Program is comprehensive, meeting the basic needs such as nutrition, health, transportation and education, but also culture and leisure and the need for affection, protection and guidance. Currently the program is run in twelve states but by 2014 whole the country will have been covered. Osvaldo Bargas at the beginning of his presentation explained why SESI decided to take part in the campaign Don t look away. The principal reason was the fear of the increase in sexual exploitation during the World Cup. SESI suggested that in Brazil the campaign should address the whole society. It is not supposed to be the campaign against sexual tourism but principally campaign aiming at protection of children. People not only shouldn t look away but be actively involved, hence the promotion of the dial 100. Next, the subsequent stages of the campaign Don t look away in Brazil were described. The prelaunch will take place on World Youth Day in July From July to December the campaign s message will be disseminated in social media, and through other national and international communication channels. The official kick off of the campaign will be held on December 6th (group draw) in Bahia. From June to July 2014 variety od raising awareness actions will be taken. At the end the examples of the visual material which will be used during the campaign was showed to the participants of the seminar. In the second panel Protecting children against sexual exploitation: examples of multistakeholder cooperation by LCR of the Code of Conduct the representatives of Poland and Netherlands shared their experiences. Gabriela Kühn program coordinator from Nobody s Children Foundation, the Local Code Representative in Poland made a brief introduction to the panel. Currently, only Orbis Group (part of Accor Group) has signed the Code of Conduct in Poland. The NCF conducted trainings for the staff in order to raise their awareness in the field of child sexual exploitation and present the intervention procedures. Laurent Picheral, President & Chief Executive Officer of ORBIS S.A presented the implementation of the Code of Conduct in Orbis group hotels. There are 59 Orbis hotels in Poland, therefore Orbis is the first actor in hospitality business there. It requires social responsibility which is part of the Orbis strategy. One of the planet 21 the Accor sustainable development program s key points is to protect our children from abuse. Having signed the Code of conduct Orbis wants to set an example and convince colleagues from hospitality business that child protection is very important not only from the ethic point of view but in terms of the image of theirs hotels. According to the internal survey made in Orbis hotels the 15

16 majority of employees feel a social responsibility to react when a child is endangered and would like to extent existing procedures by other forms of children abuse physical, psychological as well as child maltreatment. At the end president Picheral presented two cases in which the internal procedures and employees awareness helped to prevent child exploitation. Theo Noten, the representative of ECPAT Netherlands and The Code of Conduct pointed out that the multistakeholder cooperation is not something that will change overnight. It takes a lot of energy and human resources to make it work but it is needed to improve the combat against child sexual exploitation in travel and tourism. The government has the biggest part to play because the state has the responsibility to protect children from sexual exploitation. NGO s are important in this fight but also the private sector. Then, the awareness raising campaign against child sexual exploitation in tourism developed by ECPAT Netherland developed together with the Ministry of Security and Justice, Ministry of Defense, travel industry and NGO s was presented. It was launched last year. One of the organizations which took part in the campaign Crime stoppers operates a free of charge hotline where people can report the cases of child exploitation in tourism anonymously. It is an example of cooperation between the Police, the Ministry of Justice and insurance companies. The reporting is also available online through ECPAt s website. Nevertheless, it turns out that there haven t been many cases reported. At the end, it was stressed that the multistakeholder cooperation must be formalized and the Code of Conduct is the perfect tool to do it. It s implementation should be monitored by external specialists in order to evaluate its effectiveness. In case of tourism industry it is important for the management to support it. Training of the staff and internal procedures are as well necessary in order to make it work. Henk Van Ee from the Dutch National Police presented the role of the police in the fight against child pornography, child sex tourism and human trafficking of children. Before every region had their police and now there is one unified National Police which makes the cooperation easier. Within National Police a special organization combatting child pornography and child sexual exploitation in tourism has been created. It is constituted by 11 investigations teams with 150 full time detectives altogether cooperating closely with public prosecutors. They have all online access to data base. One of the main objective is to shift the investigation focus from a downloader to a victim and abuser and from abuse images to actual abuse. Another important issue is the standardization of the procedures, working methods, training model and software applications. Last but not least there is the development of the effective strategy of the fight against child sex tourism. Two workshops were organized to discuss good practices presented during the seminar and come up with the recommendations: Workshop 1: DEVELOPING RECOMMENDATIONS AND SUMMING UP EXPERIENCES IN THE VIEW OF THE UPCOMING PLANS FOR THE AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS DURING WORLD CUP IN BRAZIL Workshop 2: DEVELOPING RECOMMENDATIONS AND SUMMING UP EXPERIENCES IN VIEW OF IMPROVING THE COOPERATION BETWEEN STAKEHOLDERS TO PROTECT CHILDREN DURING INTERNATIONAL SPORTING EVENTS. WORKSHOP 1 moderated by Hannah Bristow, ECPAT Luxemburg with participation of representatives of SESI and ECPAT Brazil. The discussion focused on awareness raising campaigns conducted during the World Cup in Brazil and other sporting events, in particular: cooperation between stakeholders; different target groups of the campaign, for ex. football supporters, youth, general public; 16

17 messages to transmit and how to avoid them being misinterpreted, so that campaigns don t lose impact; strategies useful for increasing impact of the campaign; sustainability of the campaigns, what should be the legacy Summary of the discussion: As an introduction to the workshops the moderator presented the themes that participants should focus on while elaborating concrete recommendations for running awareness raising campaigns during major sporting events, such as the World Cup. The themes were points to which the attention was drawn already during the conference presentations, and included the following: cooperation between stakeholders, how to avoid dispersing the campaign message, possible target groups of the campaign, what strategies are useful for increasing impact of the campaign. Later on the discussion focus around the particularities of implementation of Don t look away campaign in Europe and Brazil. Due to many partners involved in campaigning for children s rights in Brazil, unifying the campaigns requires further negotiations with partners and centralized coordination of the campaign as a whole. Reasons for several campaigns being run at the same time, as well as risks associated with that fact, were discussed. At the end it was emphasized that international dimension of the campaign is very important and has the potential of increasing its impact. Workshop 2: moderated by Talia Bogni from ECPAT Switzerland with participation of the representative of the National Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents CONANDA from the Brazilian Secretariat for Human Rights and the Brazilian Ministry of Justice. The goal of the workshop was to discuss the two days of the seminar and to come up with the recommendations for a multiagency and multistakeholder approach. The first issue raised during the workshop concerned the security measures and programs started by the Ministry of Justice before the World Cup, if they were going to last after the Cup. Dr Mauro stressed out that there was no deadline in the proposed actions and programmes because it would make no sense to invest efforts and money in temporal solutions. He answered as well the question of the representative of Polish Border Guard about the coordination. In Brazil there is no Ministry of Interior, therefore the Ministry of Justice coordinates all the agencies responsible for security during the massive events. To make it easier the commissions constituted by all the actors involved in security issues were created at regional level developing procedures, operational plans and protocols for the incidents ranging from petty crimes to terrorist attacks. The following issue concerned the multistakeholder approach adopted by CONANDA, whether it was a new way of working or based on previous experience. Maria Isabel da Silva presented the Secretariat s for Human Rights multidisciplinary way of working and stressed out that on a daily basis they discuss and consult the project concerning children and adolescents protection not only connected with the World Cup. Next the representative of Polish Border Guard shared its experience from multiagency cooperation during the Euro Cup. It was a good opportunity to build trust between all the actors involved. The positive contribution made by volunteers was highlighted. The representative of Polish Nobody s Children Foundation also confirmed that thanks to the World Cup the multistakeholder cooperation has improved and the joint efforts contributing to the prevention of child sexual exploitation are continued. NCF also takes part of the intersectorial working group for preventing the trafficking in human being. Educational and awareness raising resources developed in the framework of the Euro Cup are still in use. 17

18 Another issue that raised concern of the participants was related to the displacement of poor people in the cities hosting big sport events. Isabel da Silva answered that the Secretariat for Human Rights had received reports on evictions caused by the Cup s infrastructure projects or basically because the authorities want to improve the image of the host cities. Hence, the Secretariat has observers among law enforcement agencies. Dr Mauro Mendonça added that special security measures have to be taken in the security zones (2km range from the stadium) in such situations. Therefore, there is a problem with people living in the streets that don t want to be displaced to different area. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that all the security measures should be implemented while respecting human rights and especially children s rights. That s why the close cooperation with the Secretariat for Human Rights is so important. Jennifer Seif also added her contribution to the discussion sharing experiences from World Cup in South Africa. She presented the risks concerning the street children and people working in submerged economy and stressed out the poor cooperation with FIFA. At the end dr Mauro Mendonça stated that all the countries must see this opportunity not as an event but a milestone. We must look beyond the stadiums. The legacy of hosting the world cup will be better security. Recommendations and conclusions: Dorothy Rozga, the Executive Director of ECPAT international moderated the last sessions of the seminar. The conclusions of the workshop focusing on the awareness raising campaigns during the World Cup in Brazil 2014 were presented by Hananh Bristow from ECPAT Luxemburg: The necessity of early planning of the awareness raising campaign as it requires a lot of meetings and investments Significance of good coordination and communication as many actors are involved In case of major massive events the government should lead and coordinate all the actions In order to ensure the cooperation of all the actors it s better to promote wider approach and focus not only on child exploitation but in general on child protection issues in order to ensure the sustainability of the actions In terms of raising awareness campaign in order to ensure strong impact it is better to focus on one strong message. As there are many different campaigns in Brazil it is important to find a common approach to be able to join the different campaigns together It is necessary while promoting the tool during the campaign such as helplines, to make sure that it is fully functional and operational It is a strength for Don t look away campaign that it is unified in Europe. There are various stakeholders around one common message that reinforces the message in Brazil The conclusions of the workshop focusing on the cooperation between stakeholders to protect children during international sport events were presented by Talia Bongni from ECPAT Switzerland: It is important to make use of existing expertise that exist in one country to undertake effective actions in the field of child protection against abuse and exploitation Major sport events are a good opportunity to form multidisciplinary groups to listen to experts who have different background whether it is social area, police or health The multistakeholder cooperation during sport events it is a good opportunity to build trust among various actors which is particularly very important for NGO s sector and law enforcement agencies 18

19 Trust building is an important opportunity within the country but also as an example shows between Poland and Ukraine in the cross-border cooperation. In case of Poland and Ukraine it worked out very well and it has been carried out beyond this event The big event shouldn t be the end of the cooperation but it should be seen as a milestone to carry on and to formulate objectives for the further milestones in the field of child rights and protection It is very important to engage wider public as welcome ambassadors at the airports or in the areas where the tourists are present. It is also a good idea to involve volunteers in the activities regarding child protection This document has been produced with the financial assistance of the above mentioned partners. The views expressed herein are those of Nobody s Children Foundation and therefore can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the above mentioned partners. 19