News and press releases

YEREVAN, 28 November 2014 – Men are more vulnerable to trafficking than women; children are protected from trafficking in Armenia. These are the topics of the debates that started today in Yerevan, Armenia...

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, on 24 November 2014, launched a series of training courses on combatting human trafficking for investigators and operative agents in Uzbekistan...

PARIS, 25 November 2014 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Ambassador Madina Jarbussynova, said today that more must be done despite 25 years of progress following the adoption of the UN’s International Convention on the Rights of the Child...

BAKU, 20 November 2014- The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Project Co-ordinator in Baku today signed a Declaration to co-operate on and support combating human trafficking in Azerbaijan. The Declaration was signed by Dereck Hogan, Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Baku, and Ambassador Alexis Chahtahtinsky, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku...

More than 120 police officers, prosecutors and judges from all over Ukraine discussed ways of enhancing the prosecution of human trafficking offences at a two-day international conference, organised by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator on 13-14 November in Kyiv...

ASTANA, 11 November 2014 – An OSCE-supported training seminar for judges from regional courts on good practices in dealing with human trafficking cases began today in Astana...

Businesses which procure products and services have an important role to play in preventing human trafficking, by setting minimum standards to be met by all their suppliers, concludes a new publication launched on 4 November 2014 by the OSCE’s Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Ambassador Madina Jarbussynova...