OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan supports regional anti-trafficking efforts

Building the capacity of the territorial branches of Uzbekistan’s Inter-agency Anti-trafficking Commission to sustainably and systematically combat human trafficking and to improve co-ordination between the different actors is the focus of a two-day workshop that started at the General Prosecutor’s office in Tashkent on 12 March 2012.

Some 30 representatives of the Commission’s territorial branches in the Tashkent and Syrdarya oblasts took part in the workshop, which was organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan with the Commission.

In his welcoming speech Ambassador György Szabó, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, underlined “establishing co-operation between state authorities and NGOs is vitally important especially in ensuring the right of trafficked persons to adequate assistance”.

Participants discussed the challenges of addressing and managing the threats of human trafficking, current practices in identifying trafficked persons and protecting the human rights of victims.