Secretariat - Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings

In the news 2008

L-r: Eva Biaudet, OSCE Special Representative; Melanne Verveer, Co-Founder and Chair of Vital Voices Global Partnership; and Ndioro Ndiaye, Deputy Director General of the International Organization for Migration, at the UN.GIFT Forum, Vienna, 14 Feb 2008. (OSCE)
L-r: Eva Biaudet, OSCE Special Representative; Melanne Verveer, Co-Founder and Chair of Vital Voices Global Partnership; and Ndioro Ndiaye, Deputy Director General of the International Organization for Migration, at the UN.GIFT Forum, Vienna, 14 Feb 2008. (OSCE)
  • December 2008: Eva Biaudet's profile is analysed in Ulkopolitiikka, the Finnish Institute of International Affairs quarterly magazine.
  • November 2008: Eurasylum's Monthly Policy Interviews interviews Eva Biaudet on recent developments in trafficking in human beings in Europe
  • October 2008: Xinhua, China echoes Eva Biaudet's call to establish national rapporteurs against human trafficking on behalf of the Alliance Expert Co-ordination Team (AECT)
  • June 2008: Eurotopics publishes a unique dossier on human trafficking in the EU, covering the role of demand in an exclusive interview with Eva Biaudet.
  • June 2008: BBC Radio 4 "Women's Hour", interviews Eva Biaudet on a special programme on the link between major sporting events and the trafficking of women.
  • May 2008: CafeBabel, a multilingual European current affairs magazine, publishes a feature article "Treating Europe's young migrants right", quoting Eva Biaudet on children as victims of trafficking.
  • April 2008: Azeri Press Agency publishes an in-depth interview with the OSCE Representative, who proposes creating a self reporting function as the National Rapporteur on combating trafficking in Azerbaijan. In Azeri, Russian, French, and Arabic
  • February 2008: HBL (in Swedish) reports on OSCE Special Representative Eva Biaudet's questioning of the effectiveness of Finnish new anti-trafficking law.
  • February 2008: Kyrkpressen (in Swedish) and EVL (in Swedish) cover Eva Biaudet's intervention during the Ecumenical Responsibility Week celebrated by Finnish churches.
  • February 2008: Peace Women, VOA News (in Albanian) and HBL (in Swedish) cover Eva Biaudet's interventions during the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking Forum (UN.GIFT).
  • January 2008: the International Herald Tribune interviews the Office of the Special Representative about female victims of trafficking who become recruiters.