News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Protecting workers' rights can prevent human trafficking, says OSCE Special Representative ahead of International Labour Day
Publishing date: 29 April 2011
VIENNA, 29 April 2011 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, stressed today that promotion of decent work and protection of workers' rights, including freedom of assembly and association, can help prevent and combat trafficking in human beings for labour exploitation...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan holds course on assistance for trafficking victims
Publishing date: 26 April 2011
A three-day workshop with Uzbekistan’s state agencies and civil society to better protect and assist the victims and survivors of human trafficking opened in Tashkent on 26 April 2011...
OSCE Special Representative, in Kosovo, highlights need to improve criminal justice response to human trafficking
Publishing date: 19 April 2011
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 19 April 2011 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, stressed today the need to improve the criminal justice response to human trafficking at a training session for judges and prosecutors in Prishtinë/Priština...
OSCE Office in Baku holds workshop on combating human trafficking
Publishing date: 18 April 2011
GANJA, Azerbaijan, 18 April 2011 – A two-day workshop organized by the OSCE Office in Baku for regional authorities on the national action plan to fight trafficking in human beings started in the western city of Ganja today...
OSCE Office hosts regional anti-trafficking consultations in northern Tajikistan
Publishing date: 13 April 2011
KHUJAND, Tajikistan, 13 April 2011 – Two days of consultations among national and regional government authorities, civil society and international organizations on how to combat human trafficking in northern Tajikistan concluded today in Khujand...
The criminal justice response to trafficking should be more effective, says OSCE Special Representative
Publishing date: 6 April 2011
Criminal justice response practices require significant change to strengthen anti-trafficking action, the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, said during an international training seminar focusing on penal law, migration, trafficking and international co-operation, in Rome on 5 April.
OSCE Office in Tajikistan hosts first open plenary session of government interagency committee to combat trafficking
Publishing date: 31 March 2011
DUSHANBE, 31 March 2011 – Tajikistan's Interagency Commission on Combating Human Trafficking discussed how the government, international organizations and civil society can work together to implement the newly-adopted National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking during its first-ever official open plenary session, held today at the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...