OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan holds course on assistance for trafficking victims

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.

The workshop, organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan and supported by the country’s authorities, brings together 35 participants from anti-trafficking NGOs as well as representatives of the State Rehabilitation Centre and Women’s Committee from Uzbekistan.

Under the guidance of two specialists from the Netherlands, the participants will discuss the challenges of addressing and managing psycho-social assistance to the victims of human trafficking, the relationship between client and care provider, and minimum social standards in work with trafficked people.  The training is based on casework good practices in the field of counter-trafficking, with a “victim first” human rights approach.

The workshop aims to build the capacity of state agencies and civil society to improve the functioning of the country’s National Referral Mechanism for identifying trafficking victims and ensuring they receive adequate care.