The National Plan to prevent and combat trafficking in Human Beings provides the strategic purposes for 2005-2006 in the field of preventing and combating trafficking in human beings, by establishing the responsible structures for their implementation.

The Centre for Preventing Trafficking in Women is one of the responsible structures to accomplish the objective 3.3. (c): To ensure that all trafficked persons have been informed about their rights. For accomplishing this objective, it is required to fulfill the following actions:

1. to grant legal counseling services;
2. to develop and to offer to victims informative materials

Following one of the projects main objectives – ensuring the access to justice for the victims of human trafficking – the CPTW lawyers offer free legal counseling services to victims and potential victims of human trafficking, represent and defend the victims within criminal cases, civil lawsuits, administrative cases during the whole period of the proceedings, starting from filing the complain till the moment of entering into force of the sentences or decisions. 

Services offered by CPTW lawyers:

1. Legal counseling through telephone line and at the office;
2. Collecting and sending intelligence to law enforcement;
3. Legal assistance in identifying and repatriating the victims of trafficking, that have disappeared;
4. Assisting the victims in documentation process;
5. Representing the victims in criminal cases and civil lawsuits.