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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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The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro (l) alongside the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina Fletcher M. Burton.

OSCE Special Representative publishes human trafficking report on Bosnia and Herzegovina

VIENNA, 1 August 2013 – In a report issued today, the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, recommended that the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina take additional steps to fully implement its OSCE commitments in the fight against human trafficking...

Investigating and prosecuting human trafficking in focus of OSCE training in Turkmenistan

ASHGABAT, 24 July 2013 – Investigating and prosecuting human trafficking crimes was in focus of an OSCE-organized training course that concluded in Ashgabat today... ()
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, during a side event at the 13th Alliance against Trafficking in Persons conference, Vienna, 25 June 2013.

New report sheds light on trafficking for organ removal in OSCE region

VIENNA, 9 July 2013 – A research paper on trafficking for the purpose of organ removal – one of the least addressed forms of trafficking in human beings – was published today by the OSCE...

OSCE Special Representative calls for enhanced support to trafficking victims during country visit to Kazakhstan

The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, visited Kazakhstan from 1 to 3 July 2013... ()
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, during a side event at the 13th Alliance against Trafficking in Persons conference, Vienna, 25 June 2013.

OSCE report links human trafficking and torture

The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, on 25 June 2013 launched a ground-breaking research paper that connects human trafficking and torture and other forms of ill-treatment...
OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, Ambassador Ihor Prokopchuk, Chairperson of the OSCE Permanent Council and Jan Eliasson, UN Deputy Secretary-General at the opening session of the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons conference, Vienna, 25 June 2013.

OSCE Special Representative, at conference in Vienna, links inequality, globalization and trafficking

VIENNA, 25 June 2013 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, today discussed financial, social and legal factors related to migration, inequality and trafficking at an OSCE-hosted conference on preventing modern-day slavery...

Illegal organ transplants and commercial child adoption focus of anti-trafficking training co-organized by OSCE in Kazakhstan

ALMATY, 20 June 2013 - A two-day training seminar for police officers on best practices in combating the trafficking in human beings began today in Almaty. Participants discussed the detection and exposure of illegal organ transplants, child adoption for commercial purposes, and human trafficking for labour and sexual exploitation... ()
A poster from an awareness-raising campaign against human trafficking, supported by OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine.

Trainers in Ukraine prepared by OSCE will teach social service providers to assist trafficking victims

KYIV, 19 June 2013 - Twenty-four trainers were prepared to upgrade skills and knowledge of social services staff, including state officials and NGO activists, in providing assistance to victims of human trafficking at an event in Kyiv, organised by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) from 17 to 19 June 2013... ()
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