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IBF - Intervention Center for Trafficked Women

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Contact - Target group - Languages - Concept - Offering - Legal information - Information -Projects

Contact

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Floragasse 7A/7
1040 Vienna

Telephone: +43.1.796 92 98
Fax: +43.1.796 92 99
E-Mail: ibf@lefoe.at

 

Person to contact

Evelyn Probst

 

Office hours
Mon, Tue, Fri: 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Thurs: 2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Target group

  • Migrant women in situations where they are forced to work in prostitution in Austria by violence, threat, deceit or by others taking advantage of a heightened dependency.
  • Migrant women who have been brought to Austria through arranged marriages and face extreme exploitation in their daily lives.
  • Migrant women trafficked to work in other fields (e.g. in the household) of exploitation or slavery.

Languages

Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bambara, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chagga, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Edo, English, Eshan, Farsi, Foula, French, Hungarian, Italian, Jula, Kambe, Kikamba, Kunma, Liso, Luganda, Lunyakole, Lutoro, Makagne, Mandinka, Ndiago, Nyanja, Pare, Pegeon, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Serer, Slovakian, Soninke, Spanish, Swahili, Taita, Toucouleur, Turkish, Wolof and Yoruba.

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Concept

Trafficking in women is

  • when a woman engages in migration on the grounds of deceit and false promises and then finds herself in a coercive situation in the target country
  • when a woman finds herself in a situation where she has no rights and is forced to provide certain services
  • when she is stripped of her dignity, personal or sexual integrity by a husband or employer

At LEFÖ-IBF, this approach focusing on the diversity of the situations of exploitation migrant women experience has been the basis of its work throughout Austria since 1998. The overarching goal at LEFÖ-IBF is to offer supportive services that strengthen and expand the scope of action of women and girls affected by trafficking. This approach is also based on the basic understanding that trafficking not only infringes on women’s rights also on women’s human rights.

 

LEFÖ-IBF aims to

  • Empowerment of women and girls
  • prevent trafficking in women
  • protect migrant women from violence, exploitation and infringements on their human rights and rights as women
  • protect and provide security for women and girls affected by trafficking
  • empower women in their migration process and offer assistance in putting an end to violent and dependent relationships with the goal of achieving a situation where it is possible to lead a dignified, self-determined life in freedom
  • improve the working and living conditions of migrant women in Austria
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Offering

  • Emergency housing with counseling in one’s first-language
  • 24 hours availability for the affected women
  • Assisted living in temporary housing
  • Psychological, social, health, life counseling and psychotherapy
  • Ensuring health and medical care
  • Counseling and assistance for residence and work permits
  • Accompaniment to police interrogations
  • Psychosocial support and legal counseling for court cases
  • Assistance for those in detention awaiting trial and suspected of being trafficked
  • German courses, further education opportunities and integration courses
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  • Support for return in cooperation with organizations in one’s country of origin

 

Legal Information

In the area of trafficking women different laws are being applied. A special role plays the Criminal Code, the Settlement and Residence Act and the Code of Criminal Procedure. But also security police law, civil law and labor law determine the legal framework. More information (pdf, 152,1 KB)

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LEFÖ - IBF is acting on behalf of

Federal Chancellery: women and

the Federal Ministry of the Interior

Process monitoring is sponsored by

Ministry Of Justice

Information

Folder für Institutionen und Behörden

IBF authorities Folder (279.5 KB)

The information for trafficked women is available in different languages.

Information Folder English (196.3 KB)

IBF brochure

The brochure is available in a number of languages

We would like to call to your attention that there is a (German-language) brochure on trafficking in children compiled by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Health, Family and Youth (BMGFJ) on the indicators and risk profiles for identifying victims of trafficking in children.

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Projects

COMP.ACT EUROPE (European Action for Compensation for Trafficked Persons)
The project was conceived in 2008 upon the initiative of 13 European NGOs. 
Since November 2009, COMP.ACT EUROPE (funded by the European Commission) aims to create access to compensation monies for pain and suffering and damage for trafficked persons. In addition to the campaign work, this international network is conducting a survey to determine the extent to which the EU member countries fulfill the legal requirements for ensuring compensation and an examination of the implementation of the related legislation. LEFÖ–IBF, along with KOK Germany and La Strada Czech Republic, is part of the COMP.ACT EUROPE steering committee. The project is directed by the European initiative La Strada International and Anti-Slavery.
The Austrian working group — composed of LEFÖ-IBF, the Ludwig Bolzmann Institute for Human Rights and two legal experts / attorneys — is responsible for the analysis of the national legal requirements and access of trafficked persons to compensation. (COMPACT-Folder, pdf 839,3 KB)

 

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This project focuses on standards of quality for a secure return of women affected by trafficking. Starting in November 2009 and funded by the European Return Fund and the Austrian National Ministry for Internal Affairs, the project seeks to develop standards of quality for risk assessment and for a voluntary and safe return. The standards of quality are connected to measures to prevent revictimization and focuses on the safety of women affected by trafficking. A further element is to build sustainable networks to help support the reintegration of trafficked persons in their countries of origin. The target is to establish cooperative agreements with national and international organizations in Austria, Africa and Asia.

 

ENPATES
The project ENPATES (European NGOs Platform Against Trafficking, Exploitation And Slaveries) aims to create an efficient European cooperation network among NGOs active in anti-trafficking and to systematize information on trafficking in persons and anti-trafficking strategies. Over a period of two years, the project will set up a platform to compile, organize and conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses on anti-trafficking measures, activities, practices and theories.

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