Our Airline Ambassador team will provide training in Bucharest, Romania on March 28/29, 2019. Training’s will be provided at the Radisson Blu Hotel for hotel employees, uber drivers and the hospitality community, at SELEC Headquarters, the Airport and the US Embassy. Many thanks to the US Embassy for sponsorship of this important initiative.

Director of Law Enforcement for Grace Farms Foundation, Rod Khattabi and US prosecutor Krishna Patel will join Airline Ambassador trainers Nancy Rivard, Donna Hubbard and Marie Rivard for this training.

From the 2018 Trafficking in Persons Report “Romania is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor and women and children subjected to sex trafficking. Romania is a significant source of sex and labor trafficking victims throughout Europe. Romanian men, women, and children are subjected to labor trafficking in agriculture, construction, hotels, manufacturing, and domestic service, as well as forced begging and theft in Romania and other European countries. Romanian women and children are victims of sex trafficking in Romania and other European countries. Romani children, as young as 12 years old, are particularly vulnerable to forced begging and sex trafficking.” See US Embassy invitation below :

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February 21, 2019

Police Chief Commissioner Adrian Popescu

General Inspector Romanian Border Police

Dear Chief Commissioner Popescu,

The Embassy of the United States of America in Bucharest, through the Department of State’s Counter-Trafficking in Persons Training Program and in partnership with Airline Ambassadors International (AAI), will host a Human Trafficking Awareness briefing on March 28, 2019 at the SELEC Center (14:00 – 16:00, Parliament Palace, Calea 13 Septembrie no. 1 – 5, sector 5, Bucharest, Room S1, access through the tunnel). Designed for law enforcement personnel, magistrates, government agencies and representatives of local NGOs, the session will cover the basics of recognizing indicators of human trafficking, proper response and reporting procedures, along with an overview of U.S. human trafficking laws and examples of successful prosecution of cases. The briefing will be conducted by speakers from Airline Ambassadors International (the leading global organization specialized in human trafficking awareness programs at international airports), two experienced U.S. prosecutors and one survivor of human trafficking.   

Please submit the names of ten (10) English speaking representatives from your agency who would benefit most from this briefing and three (3) other names as alternates. Due to administrative reasons, we kindly ask you to provide a complete list of participants and alternates (including full name, position, date and place of birth, ID serial number to facilitate access at the SELEC Center) by March 15, 2019. Please note that once approved, the names of the participants cannot be changed.

If you have any further questions, the Embassy point of contact for this event is Claudia Munteanu, Training Coordinator, phone: 021-200-3471, 0723-288911, fax: 021-317-2523 or email: munteanuc@state.gov.

Thank you for your continued cooperation and support.

Sincerely,

Patrick J. Keegan

Security Attaché

Diplomatic Security Service

United States Embassy Bucharest, Romania