News from the Fafo frontpage: July 2005

A Life of One's Own

18.07.2005
The Fafo report A Life of One's Own: Rehabilitation of victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation, was presented in Belgrade on 30 June. The report is the result of a research cooperation between Fafo (Oslo, Norway), Sør-Trøndelag University College (Trondheim, Norway), and the Victimology Society of Serbia, and was funded by the Research Council of Norway within the Norwegian Cooperation Programme with South Eastern Europe.

Find the report here (English edition)

The picture shows from the left: Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic (author), Marianne Berg Haaland (First Secretary, Royal Norwegian Embassy, Belgrade), Dragana Petrovic (Vice-president of the Council for gender equality of the Government of Serbia), and the authors Lise Bjerkan and Linda Dyrild. (The author Biljana Simeunovic-Patic is not in the picture)

New Fafo report on prison interventions for violent and sexual offenders

13.07.2005
In spite of widespread media coverage of sexual and violent crimes, much of the professional work done with the offenders inside prison to reduce the risk of future offending is unknown to the public. This report gives a glimpse into the world of offender rehabilitation aimed at violent and sexual offenders, by presenting five different interventions currently in operation in Norway. The report presents what is known so far about the results of the interventions, and points out where the documentation is weak or missing. Findings are based on documentation provided by the interventions themselves, supplemented by interviews with staff and participants. The report concludes with some common challenges all of the five interventions face when it comes to systematically documenting what they do, in order to prepare the ground for future evaluations.More about the report (in Norwegian)

New report: Employment in the EU based on Farmed Norwegian Salmon

11.07.2005

Fafo (by researcher Torunn Kvinge) and Sintef have conducted a study on the extent of employment within the European Union based on imports of farmed Atlantic salmon, with special focus on Norwegian salmon. A preliminary paper was published on the web in June.
Read the final report here (PDF)
See presentations on websites at Fellesforbundet and Norsk fiskeoppdrett (in Norwegian)
See previous press publicity

Childhoods 2005 Oslo

1.-2.07.2005
At the international conference about childhood and youth at the University of Oslo, Fafo is organising the thematic network group Children and Trafficking. Fafo researchers Anne Hatløy, Guri Tyldum and Marianne Tveit coordinate the group, while Jon Pedersen, Trude Arnesen and Anne Hatløy speak of children in armed conflict and street children. The conference is arranged by the University of Oslo, the Norwegian Social Research and the Childwatch International Research Network.
More about Fafo's network group on Children and Trafficking
Programme for the session Children and Trafficking
Read more about Fafo's research on Children and Trafficking