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Commitment to forge stronger cross-sector partnerships and integrated crisis resilience strategies reaffirmed by anti-trafficking leaders at annual meeting
Publishing date: 12 September 2025
Content type: Press release
STRASBOURG, 12 September 2025 — National anti-trafficking co-ordinators and rapporteurs reaffirmed their commitment to forge stronger cross-sector partnerships and integrate crisis resilience into anti-trafficking strategies at their largest annual meeting, held from 11 to 12 September at the
Supply chain ethics: Promoting human rights and social responsibility on the margins of EU corporate sustainability due diligence directive conference
Publishing date: 27 June 2025
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
The OSCE and the Greek labour inspectorate joined forces to host a conference focused on human rights due diligence for more than 120 public officials, business and civil society representatives on 25 June 2025, in Athens. The event, hosted by the Office of the OSCE Special Representative and
Second Central Asian regional simulation-based training strengthens joint response to human trafficking
Publishing date: 13 June 2025
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Over 130 practitioners from Central Asia and Türkiye gathered this week at Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, for a five-day regional simulation-based training exercise on combating trafficking in human beings. The training was opened by Nurlanbek Azygaliev, Vice Speaker of the Parliament of the Kyrgyz
OSCE Seminar in Ashgabat Enhances Capacity to Tackle Technology-Facilitated Human Trafficking
Publishing date: 2 June 2025
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
The rising threat of technology-facilitated trafficking in human beings was the focus of a two-day OSCE seminar in Ashgabat from 29 to 30 May 2025. Jointly organized by the Office of the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings and the OSCE Centre in
Labour inspectors boost skills for identifying and preventing human trafficking of Ukrainian refugees through OSCE workshop
Publishing date: 11 April 2025
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Labour inspectors sharpened their skills detecting and responding to cases of forced labour, particularly those involving Ukrainians fleeing the war, at a workshop held in Vienna by the Office of the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings in
OSCE leaders and anti-trafficking experts commit to tripling down on efforts to end child trafficking
Publishing date: 2 April 2025
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
VIENNA, 2 April 2025 – At the 25th Conference of the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons, which concluded in Vienna on Tuesday, OSCE leaders and anti-trafficking experts called on the 57 OSCE participating States to turn their commitments into tangible actions and triple down on efforts in the fight against child trafficking.
OSCE welcomes Spain’s anti-trafficking efforts, urges a comprehensive law and better victim identification and protection
Publishing date: 17 February 2025
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Kari Johnstone, OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, and OSCE anti-trafficking experts concluded their four-day visit to Madrid on Friday, February 14.