General Secretariat for Gender Equality

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The G.S.G.E. is the governmental agency competent to plan, implement, and monitor the implementation of policies on equality between women and men in all sectors.

The Secretary General for Gender Equality participates in the Special Interministerial Committee of Secretaries General, established by the Ministry of Justice, aiming at the coordination of the measures confronting the phenomenon. In the framework of implementing the Integrated National Action Plan against trafficking in persons, which is politically coordinated by the above mentioned Committee, the General Secretariat for Gender Equality has ensured:

a. Assistance to victims of trafficking, by the two Consultation Centres (in Athens and in Piraeus) for violence against women, which ensure social, psychological and legal support.

b. Possibility of including women victims of trafficking in a Programme implemented by the General Secretariat for Gender Equality aiming at ensuring work to them.

c. Information and sensitization of the public opinion, both through broadcasting a social spot produced by the General Secretariat for Gender Equality on TV, which was first broadcast in February 2006 - with a positive response from the public- and is still being broadcast up to the present, and, on the other hand, through an information leaflet in five languages (Greek, English, Albanian, Russian and Romanian).

d. In cooperation with the Institute of Training of the National Centre for Public Administration, training and sensitisation seminars addressing judges, public prosecutors, police officers and health and social workers are carried out in various Greek cities, aiming at an effective handling of cases of domestic violence and trafficking.