Situation during visit in 2008 Information received in the reporting Steps taken in previous years and (See A/HRC/13/39/Add.6; A/HRC/16/52/Add.2A) period were detained in Ellebæk, of which 27 were waiting to be returned or deported. 21 aliens, who had been expelled and are awaiting an effectuation of the expulsion decision, were remanded in custody. (d) Give greater attention to the rehabilitation of victims of human trafficking in Denmark. 20 A Centre for Human Trafficking Non-governmental sources: In May 2008 a to coordinate action was meeting place for foreign prostitutes was set created; in Copenhagen with the purpose of establishing contact with potential victims of An ―Action Plan to Combat trafficking. Social workers are employed at Trafficking in Human Beings the centre and a health clinic with doctors 2007-2010‖ built upon the and nurses were set up too. At the centre, the experience of earlier plans of women receive health services, courses in action; contraception, language courses, counsel concerning rights and opportunities, etc.20 Section 262a of the Criminal Code criminalizes trafficking in Government: Health care services are being human beings, pursuant to the provided to potential victims of trafficking 2007-2010 plan of action, on 1 in prostitution in the established drop-inAugust 2007, an amendment to centre in Copenhagen and through special the Danish Aliens Act came into agreements with two major hospitals. force, which provided for the Similar arrangements are being developed in so-called ―assisted voluntary areas outside the capital. return programme‖, which entails improvements over the Access to lawyers and legal advice in the existing regime on trafficking; reflection period has been extended. The Danish Centre for Human Trafficking draws Despite greater attention to on the expertise of lawyers specialized in victims, in the opinion of the human rights and immigration law to assist Special Rapporteur the efforts victims in cases concerning questions of were not sufficiently victimresidence, family reunification, asylum, centered; the efforts appeared to deportation, work permits and integration. be aimed less at the rehabilitation of victims of Additional funding has been allocated to trafficking in Denmark than at services provided by specially trained repatriating them to their personnel to support individual victims Statusrapport for 2007-2009 (June 2009), Den tværministerielle arbejdsgruppe til bekæmpelse af menneskehandel [Crossministerial working group for the elimination of human trafficking]. Available in Danish at: http://www.lige.dk/files/PDF/Handel/status_handel_juni2009.pdf A/HRC/19/61/Add.3 32 Recommendations (A/HRC/10/44/Add.2)