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As part of an OSCE-sponsored awareness-raising campaign, students in Tajikistan designed anti-trafficking posters. (OSCE)
As part of an OSCE-sponsored awareness-raising campaign, students in Tajikistan designed anti-trafficking posters. (OSCE)

Human trafficking affects virtually all OSCE states, either as countries of origin or destination. This modern form of slavery is an affront to human dignity, often involving psychological terror and physical violence. Human trafficking engages issues of human rights and rule of law, of law enforcement and crime control, of inequality and discrimination, of corruption, economic deprivation and migration.

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Local art students in Dushanbe designed posters to raise awareness about the problem of human trafficking, as part of a campaign supported by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan in 2011.

ODIHR facilitates discussion on National Referral Mechanisms for victims of trafficking in Central Asia

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) organized a roundtable for Central Asian experts responsible for developing and implementing national anti-trafficking policies on 21 and 22 May in Istanbul...

What doctors can do to prevent trafficking and domestic violence, assist victims, in focus of OSCE workshop in Kosovo

A series of six training workshops organized by the OSCE Mission and Ministry of Health for 180 doctors in Kosovo on how to identify and treat victims of trafficking and domestic violence concluded in Prishtinë/Priština on 16 May 2013... ()
A poster from an awareness-raising campaign against human trafficking, supported by OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine.

Better results in prosecution of human trafficking in Ukraine are in focus of OSCE supported discussion

KYIV, 13 May 2013 – Ways to enhance the prosecution of human trafficking offences and improve the protection of victims’ rights in Ukraine was the topic of a discussion started in Kyiv today with the support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU)... ()

Trafficking victims who commit crimes under coercion should not be punished, says OSCE Special Representative

The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, issued on 25 April 2013 a series of policy and legislative recommendations to help ensure that judicial and law enforcement officials do not prosecute trafficking victims for crimes they have been compelled to commit by their exploiters. Among such crimes is the use of false documents or forced labour in a cannabis factory...

OSCE trains Albanian law enforcement on seizure of criminal assets derived from human trafficking

An OSCE seminar on financial investigation and seizure of criminal assets related to different form of human trafficking was held with Albanian police, prosecutors, judges and financial investigators on 18 17 April 2013 in Tirana... ()

Reporting on human trafficking manual published by OSCE, Moscow University, Russian Union of Journalists

The OSCE Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, the Moscow State University and the Russian Union of Journalists on 28 March 2013 published a course book for journalism students writing about human trafficking... ()
Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, speaks to the 11th High-level Alliance against Trafficking in Persons conference. Vienna, 20 June 2011.

OSCE Special Representative stresses victims’ rights at Krakow conference on trafficking in human beings

The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, said at a judicial training seminar in Krakow, Poland on 14 March 2013 that trafficked people’s legal rights must be upheld and given the same importance as punishing perpetrators in court...

OSCE, UNHCR exchange good practices with Azerbaijani officials and legal professionals on countering human trafficking

The OSCE Office in Baku and UNHCR held two workshops from 25 to 28 February 2013 on combating human trafficking and forced labour in Azerbaijan...
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