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OSCE offers speedy care and advice to Albanian trafficking victims

Publishing date: 27 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
TIRANA, 27 November 2002- Legal experts from the newly-formed OSCE Victims Assistance Team were on hand through the whole of Wednesday night offering immediate care and advice to victims of trafficking who had just been sent back from Italy. This...

Initiating a regional NGO network on anti-trafficking in southeast Europe

Publishing date: 26 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
BELGRADE, 26 November 2002- Representatives of 23 non-governmental organizations from 11 different countries discussed the creation of a network of NGOs working on anti-trafficking issues in southeast Europe at a...

New UN Human Rights Commissioner calls for expansion of co-operation with OSCE

Publishing date: 21 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Permanent Council
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights, National minority issues
VIENNA, 21 November 2002- Speaking for the first time at a meeting of the OSCE's 55-nation Permanent Council, the new United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sergio Vieira de Mello, called for expanded co-operation between his office and...

Exhibition "United Europe Against Slavery" opens in Yerevan

Publishing date: 18 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
YEREVAN, 18 November 2002- The exhibition United Europe Against Slavery, which opens today at the Moskva Cinema Theater in Yerevan, is a landmark event to raise public awareness on human trafficking issues...

First free national anti-trafficking hotline in Ukraine to start today

Publishing date: 18 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
KYIV, 18 November 2002- Ukraine's first free national telephone hotline service to fight the scandal of trafficking in human beings will officially start working today. The establishment of the hotline was initiated and...

OSCE roundtable in Albania discusses women's rights, anti-trafficking

Publishing date: 15 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
TIRANA, 15 November 2002- Women's rights in Albania and measures against trafficking in human beings supported by the OSCE brought together Albanian and international experts in a roundtable today. The Tirana roundtable, hosted...

Ukrainian prosecutors, law enforcement officials and NGO members to visit Italy

Publishing date: 8 November 2002
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Democratization, Human rights
KYIV, 8 November 2002- A high-ranking delegation from the Office of the Ukrainian General Prosecutor, the Interior Ministry and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will make a study trip to Italy from 10 to 13 November. The trip...