FIGHT - Fight Global Human Trafficking

Combating human trafficking has become an increasingly important political priority.
At European and national level, greater efforts and resources are being devoted to combating this problem, and there is also agreement in the international community on the need for a multilateral response to human trafficking.
The Europe Institute for Social Work founded the FIGHT project to contribute to this effort.

• mapping and evaluating research on human trafficking to the European Union
• exploring new research fields of human trafficking issues
• assessing the work of social welfare organisations in the field of human trafficking
• developing training modules for social welfare organisations
• developing education and information actions designed to increase awareness
• establishing an European Network Centre to focus on research and exchange of good practices
• providing consultancy in the field of combating human trafficking

We need cooperation partners for our European Network Centre.

At the Europe Institute for Social Work we established cooperations and contacts to universities, social welfare organisations, NGOs and governmental organisations all over Europe to create an European Network against human trafficking. The centre of information and counselling has the following tasks:

• initiating and realising scientific studies and projects in the area of human trafficking in co-operation with others partners and actors
• independent counselling of welfare organisations, NGOs and governmental organisations which are active in the field of combating human trafficking
• initiating and realising public campaigns in order to sharpen the consciousness of this severe social problem

If you want to join us or to make a contribution please send us an email to
fight (at) socialeurope.de or use the contact form.

Prof. Jürgen Nowak
is the director of the Europe Institute for Social Work in Berlin. As a professor of social economy and sociology at the Alice Salomon University he established numerous international research projects, e.g. a Russian-German double master in Intercultural Social Work. His research interests include migration, human rights, globalisation of social work, and social policy.

Michael Junghans
is a project manager at the Europe Institute for Social Work in Berlin, where he manages a portfolio on human trafficking and other human rights issues. He is passionate about addressing human trafficking at the global level, and volunteers a lot of time to promote the activities of the UN Global Initiative to Fight Trafficking (UNGIFT).

Virginia Moukouli
is a research consultant at the Europe Institute for Social Work in Berlin, where she works on human trafficking and migration policy. As a social scientist working at the University of Hamburg, she has extensive work experience in the management of international research projects. Her research interests include migration, human rights, impact of globalisation, science policy, and the sociology of education.