News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
How do law enforcement agencies work with social welfare offices, shelters and civil society to combat human trafficking?
Publishing date: 25 September 2023
The OSCE supported the first national simulation exercise that united the entire Moldovan anti-human trafficking community. During a five-day simulated exercise, 80 practitioners from law enforcement agencies, social welfare officials, prosecutors, magistrates, and civil society organizations
Strengthening anti-trafficking action focus of OSCE Special Representative visit to Moldova
Publishing date: 7 June 2022
CHISINAU, 07 June 2022 – OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Valiant Richey, visited the Republic of Moldova to support the implementation of the recommendations his Office issued to reduce the risks of human trafficking.
Countering risks of human trafficking amid refugee flow focus of visit to Moldova by OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President and Special Representative
Publishing date: 22 April 2022
CHISINAU, 23 April 2022 – Countering the risks of human trafficking amid the humanitarian crisis caused by attack on Ukraine was at the centre of a two-day visit to Moldova by the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Margareta Cederfelt (Sweden), and the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Valiant Richey.
Increasing refugee flow focus of OSCE Anti-Trafficking and Gender Technical Co-ordination Meeting
Publishing date: 21 April 2022
On 21 April, the OSCE Mission to Moldova held an Anti-Trafficking and Gender Technical Co-ordination Meeting to discuss the impacts of the increasing refugee flow and the risks of trafficking in human beings.
OSCE, local partners organize Moldova’s first anti-human trafficking hackathon
Publishing date: 16 November 2020
During a hackathon co-organized by the OSCE Mission to Moldova from 6 to 8 November 2020, thirty-six young women and men from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River spent 72 hours designing innovative tech-based solutions to prevent and combat human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of children in Moldova...
Moldovan prosecutors and police officers enhance skills at OSCE-supported workshop on investigating transnational cases of trafficking
Publishing date: 16 November 2018
Fifteen prosecutors and police officers completed a three-day workshop on investigating transnational cases of trafficking in human beings on 15 November 2018 in Chisinau. The workshop was organized jointly by the OSCE Mission to Moldova, the Moldovan General Prosecutor’s Office and the General Police Inspectorate, with the support of the European Union Judicial Co-operation Unit (Eurojust)...
OSCE Mission to Moldova supports workshop on protecting human trafficking victims for NGO representatives from Transdniestria
Publishing date: 11 July 2018
Seventeen civil society professionals from the left bank of the Dniester/Nistru River successfully completed a two-day capacity-building training course on best practices in identifying and assisting victims of trafficking in human beings. The event was organized by the OSCE Mission to Moldova in partnership with the Transdniestrian NGO Women’s Initiatives from 10 to 11 July 2018 in Tiraspol...