OSCE Centre holds training on prevention of human trafficking
Continuous awareness campaigns on human trafficking are important tools for tackling this modern form of slavery. Here, posters of La Strada, an NGO dedicated to fighting human trafficking and supported by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine. (La Strada Ukraine) Photo details
TASHKENT, 15 April 2004 - Different ways of preventing human trafficking will be the focus of a work-shop, organized by the OSCE Centre in Tashkent, which opened in the Uzbek capital today. The two-day event brings together 80 participants from state structures, civil society and the mass media.
The course, "Joint efforts to combat trafficking in human beings," is part of the anti-trafficking programme of the Centre and is a follow-up activity of a series of training courses for state structures, media outlets and civil society conducted by the Centre in 2003 and 2004.
Topics to be discussed during the workshop include: better co-operation between media, official structures and public organizations; preventing trafficking in human beings through income generating programmes; effective awareness raising campaigns; determining task groups; trafficking case studies.
The course, "Joint efforts to combat trafficking in human beings," is part of the anti-trafficking programme of the Centre and is a follow-up activity of a series of training courses for state structures, media outlets and civil society conducted by the Centre in 2003 and 2004.
Topics to be discussed during the workshop include: better co-operation between media, official structures and public organizations; preventing trafficking in human beings through income generating programmes; effective awareness raising campaigns; determining task groups; trafficking case studies.