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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Human trafficking challenges and responses in Armenia in focus of OSCE Special Representative country visit
Publishing date: 13 October 2016
YEREVAN, 13 OCTOBER 2016 –OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (OSR/CTHB) Madina Jarbussynova, conducted in co-ordination and with the assistance of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, a four-day official visit to Armenia to discuss the country’s implementation of OSCE anti-trafficking commitments.
OSCE trains lawyers of the OSCE-supported Women’s Resource Centres in Tajikistan on protecting victims of domestic violence and human trafficking
Publishing date: 7 October 2016
DUSHANBE, 7 October 2016 – An OSCE-organized two-day training course for lawyers from OSCE-supported Women’s Resource Centres (WRCs) concluded today in Dushanbe. The course brought together some 18 participants with the aim of strengthening their knowledge of legal instruments and procedures to protect survivors of human trafficking and domestic violence and in facilitating their access to justice...
OSCE concludes series of anti-trafficking seminars for law-enforcement officers and social workers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 6 October 2016
The OSCE Programme Office in Astana held the last in a series of five seminars on anti-trafficking practices and procedures on 6 October 2016 in Shymkent, South Kazakhstan Region...
Use of digital tools by human traffickers in focus of OSCE-supported meeting for law enforcers in Ukraine
Publishing date: 22 September 2016
Some 50 police officers, investigators, prosecutors and judges from six regions of Ukraine participated in a two-day roundtable discussion on the investigation and prosecution of human trafficking crimes committed with the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine on 21-22 September 2016 in Kharkiv...
OSCE Office in Tajikistan holds high-level dialogue on countering trafficking in human beings
Publishing date: 16 September 2016
KHUJAND, Tajikistan, 16 September 2016 – The next session of the OSCE-organized high-level dialogue on countering human trafficking took place today in Khujand and brought together some 60 participants from state agencies, civil society organizations, academia and the international community, as part of the Office’s support to the Inter-agency Commission on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings under Tajikistan’s Presidential Apparatus...
Anti-trafficking responses trends and challenges at the core of OSCE Special Representative’s Romania visit
Publishing date: 14 September 2016
BUCHAREST, 14 SEPTEMBER 2016 –OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (OSR/CTHB), Madina Jarbussynova, concluded on Tuesday a follow-up visit to Romania, aimed at discussing the country’s progress in implementing OSCE anti-trafficking commitments in relation to the previous 2013 OSR/CTHB report.
OSCE Special Representative calls on states to prevent human trafficking through ethical sourcing in supply chains
Publishing date: 7 September 2016
BERLIN, 7 September 2016- A two-day high-level conference focusing on the prevention of human trafficking for labour exploitation in supply chains, organized by the OSCE Office of the Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings in co-operation with the German OSCE Chairmanship, opened today in Berlin...