Graziella do Ó Rocha, PhD in Social Policy from Federal Fluminense University (UFF). Coordinator of projects to combat human trafficking at the Brazilian Association for the Defense of Women in Childhood and Youth (Asbrad). Specialist in the themes of combating human trafficking, migration, and refuge. Researcher linked to the Research Group on Slave Labor and Related Issues (GPTEC), of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). As a consultant to UNODC, she carried out the evaluation of the II National Plan to Combat Human Trafficking. Is a member of the National Committee to Combat Trafficking in Persons (Conatrap).

 

Asbrad is a Brazilian civil society organization dedicated to the promotion and defense of human rights, created in 1997 by a group of professionals from various areas - including President Dalila Eugênia Maranhão Dias Figueredo, lawyer, and social worker. The institution has composed for a multidisciplinary team: of lawyers, psychologists, educators, social workers and other professionals and develops projects to support victims of domestic and sexual violence, victims of trafficking in persons and slave-like labor, violence against the elderly, implementation of a socio-educational measure applied to adolescents in conflict with the law, the defense of children and adolescents and promotion of the rights of migrants and refugees.

          

The Freedom in The Air Project is an initiative of the Brazilian Public Ministry of Labor (MPT) developed in partnership with the Brazilian Association for the Defense of Women in Childhood and Youth (Asbrad), the United Nations and other partners. The project aims to support actions to prevent trafficking in persons in the airport sector. Through this project, campaigns are developed that warn about the risks of false promises of work and offer training to identify cases in the context of the airport.