"The knowledge gained from our workshops doesn't stay in the meeting room," saysStojneAtanasovskaDimishkovska, as she wraps up a regional meeting on child exploitation in South Eastern Europe and prepares for the mock trial of a trafficking case.
When a Venezuelan migrant fled her abusers in Ecuador and crossed the border illegally into Peru, she could have faced deportation and further traumatization.
Instead, due to a project initiated by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
(UNODC), she received the support and protection she needed, despite her irregular status.
Aura, a Colombian grandmother, has just crossed one of the most dangerous routes in the Americas: the Darien Gap. The Gap is a dense tropical forest covering over 575,000 hectares across Panama and Colombia.