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OSCE high-level conference in Kyiv to focus on combating trafficking in human beings
VIENNA, 7 June 2013 – Strengthening the OSCE response to trafficking in human beings is focus of the OSCE high-level conference to take place in Kyiv from 10 to 11 June 2013...
OSCE Office announces contest for reporting on human trafficking
BAKU, 24 May 2013 - The OSCE Office in Baku is pleased to announce a contest for media reports highlighting the problems of human trafficking and forced labour in Azerbaijan... ()
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...
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... ()
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...