Centrs MARTA

Laughs and positive emotions are the best healing

World Childhood Foundation have a long time collaboration with Resource Center for Women MARTA, funding the program for social rehabilitation of children victims of sexual abuse and their non-abusive parent. This year World Childhood Foundation introduced Silver Lining grant to provide activity that would give children an opportunity to...

Myria Vassiliadou, EU Anti trafficking Coordinator (video)

MARTA urges Amnesty International to Protect the Most Vulnerable Women

MARTA, alongside other women rights movements, calls upon all Amnesty International members to take the steps necessary to protect the human rights of prostituted persons and reject the Amnesty International proposed policy of full decriminalization of the sex industry, including the decriminalization of those who inflict abuse, violence...

Why sex-offenders in Latvia remain jail-free?

The most recent lenient court judgment in Liepaja, a western-most sea-side town of Latvia, adopting sentences of 240 hours of community service and one year probation period for the two adult men pleading guilty of repeated and prolonged lewd conduct with a minor (5 year old girl) have highlighted the dismissive attitudes towards sex...

New social assistance schemes to promote income generating opportunities for most vulnerable households

Iluta Lāce, director of the MARTA Centre participated in the final conference “New social assistance schemes to promote income generating opportunities for most vulnerable households” (Tashkent, Chirchik, Kibray, Syrdarya district – Uzbekistan) on 19th June in Tashkent. MARTA has extensive experience in...

Empowering women and girls in Central Asia: Stories from the field

https://vimeo.com/132193437Marta will participate in the lab on 4th June in EU Development days in Brussels. The aim of the lab is to share action-oriented recommendations on how to eliminate discrimination and violence against women thus removing the obstacles to women’s and girls’ economic empowerment. The debate will focus...

MARTA participates in EU Development days on 3-4 June in Brussels

More info: http://www.eudevdays.eu/content/promotion-materials

Resource Centre for Women "Marta" is working with victims of human trafficking since 2002

Indeed, human trafficking is a fact in Latvia. There have been cases of human beings trafficked for hard forced work abroad, yet more often children and women are given false promises and later on trafficked for sex slavery against their will. When estimating income from work in agriculture, the service sphere or au pair service, few...

Recommendations for Prevention of Gender Based Violence and Women’s Economic Empowerment

During the conference Prevention of Violence – Precondition for Economic Empowerment of Women (Riga, 3rd March 2015) the participants representing women’s organisations and non-governmental organizations from a number of countries developed a series of recommendations within the scope of UN Millenium Development Goals and...

MARTA launches campaign „You Are Vulnerable” (Arī Tevi var ievainot).

MARTA continues its work on fighting human trafficking and calls on society to be more vigilant and active, and to support victims instead of blaming them.People in Latvia and all over the world are being sold every day. We like to think it will never happen to us yet we all have vulnerabilities and might become enslaved and...