Kristiina Luht is Adviser at the Department for Equality Policies of the Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs. She is responsible for developing and implementing policies and strategies for tackling trafficking in human beings and violence against women and creating services for victims of human trafficking and gender based violence. She also deals with implementation of the National Strategy for Preventing Violence 2015-2020 (including domestic violence, sexual violence and human trafficking), organising and implementing trainings and lectures for different target groups, producing teaching materials and guidelines on THB and on domestic violence, counselling local and international projects on THB and violence prevention and victim support.
Ms. Luht is also performing as the Ministry’s official representative in the National Working Group on Human Trafficking and in the National Working Group on Violence. Between 2003 and 2004 Ms. Luht worked as a project manager at the the Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs where she created and implemented several international projects such as “Drugs, prostitution, trafficking from gender perspective” in Nordic and Baltic countries and Northwest Russia. Between 2002 and 2003 she was an Estonian national coordinator for the Nordic Baltic Campaign against Trafficking in Women. Ms. Luht has written several articles on prostitution and human trafficking. She is an author or co-author of several teaching materials and guidelines on how to prevent human trafficking and support its victims for example Guide for Identifying and Aiding Victims of Human Trafficking and Trafficking in Human Beings: Theory and Practice for Assisting the Victims. Manual for Social Workers. She gained M.A. in Information Science at the Tallinn University.
