Moldovan border guards will attend a series of training courses on identifying victims of human trafficking. The seminars are part of the project “Training for Border Guards from Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine”, implemented by the International Organization for Migration, Mission in Moldova (IOM Moldova), Info-Prim Neo reports. According to ION, the project is primarily aiming at enhancing transnational border guards cooperation in the field of identification and referral for assistance victims and potential victims of trafficking. In addition, it pursues to incorporate border authorities into the National and Transnational Referral Systems as another professional referral actor, as well as raising awareness of the issues related to irregular migration and trafficking. The training sessions will be held in October and November at the working places of the birder guards, in eight international crossing points, on both sides of the frontier. Their attainments will be assessed in December. The regional project “Training for Border Guards from Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine” was launched in March 2008. It is a part of the 2008 regional component of the Program against Human Trafficking in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe supported by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2000 to 2007, ION Moldova granted assistance to as many as 2,285 trafficking victims and recorded over 900 cases of preventing it. 85 new cases of trafficking were recorded in the first half of 2008.