Friday, November 2, 2012

VITA--Victim Translation Assistance Tool

http://www.ungift.org/knowledgehub/en/tools/vita.
Source: UN.GIFT

Life support messages for victims of human trafficking


Law enforcement officials and victim service providers are often the
first point of contact for victims of human trafficking who do not speak
 the language of the country they are in. In order to aid those helping
 the victims, UN.GIFT/UNODC, the Austrian Criminal Intelligence
Service and the Austrian NGO LEFOE-IBF worked together to create
 VITA (Victim Translation Assistance).

VITA is a unique new tool using audio messages, that allows law
enforcement officials to provide a level of basic assistance to victims
of human trafficking. Human trafficking survivors contributed to the
development of these messages, which were also supported by
experts in human trafficking focused on victims' needs.

This audio tool, consisting of key encounter messages, was developed
 to facilitate the identification of a trafficked person and the launch of
a criminal investigation. Thirty-five basic questions and messages
 have been recorded and translated into 40 languages, taking into
account special questions for children.

You can run the VITA tool directly from here or you can download the
 VITA tool with or without sound (for Windows)

For Mac notebooks and deskcomputers please download from here

To run the VITA you need to:
1. open the .zip file
2. Then click on Extract (on top of the winzip window)
3. Choose a folder on your PC where the files should be saved and
click on Extract
4. Then open the Folder called VITA tool  
5. and open the main.exe (red icon)

Now you can start the tool.
You can download the printed version of the VITA here
In case of technical difficulties, please try to open the tool
with another internet browser (eg Internet Explorer) or
contact ungift@unodc.org or +43-1-26060-4584

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