The Centre for Prevention of Trafficking in Women (CPTW) is a project implemented by the nongovernmental organization „The Association of Women in Legal Careers”.

The CPTW project was launched in 2001 and had as objectives raising public awareness on the issue of human trafficking, informing the vulnerable categories of people at risks and consequences of trafficking, contributing at strengthening institutional capacities in preventing and prosecuting trafficking in human beings.

Since 2003, the Centre for Prevention of Trafficking in Women has been performing various activities that have as major objective combating trafficking in human beings by providing access to social and legal services for victims and potential victims of trafficking, through strengthening capacities and as well as through partnerships between local public authorities, law enforcement bodies and civil society.

Till June 2006, the CPTW project has been coordinated by the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP), Moldova and was financed by the USA State Department.

Starting with June 2006, the project is financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark within the Neighborhood Program „The Program against Trafficking in Human Beings in Eastern and South Eastern Europe”, implemented simultaneously in five countries (Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria and Romania) for the period 2005-2008.