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OSCE Office in Tajikistan holds high-level dialogue on countering trafficking in human beings
Publishing date: 24 May 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
DUSHANBE, 24 May 2016 – An OSCE-organized high-level dialogue on countering human trafficking today in Dushanbe brought together some 50 participants from state agencies, civil society organizations and the international community, as part of the Office’s support to the Inter-agency Commission on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings under Tajikistan’s Presidential Apparatus...
Community leaders in southern Kyrgyzstan discuss preventing human trafficking at an OSCE training course
Publishing date: 17 May 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 17 May 2016 – Some 25 community leaders, heads and members of rural councils, religious leaders and youth from the Osh, Jalal-Abad and Batken regions gathered for a one-day training course on preventing human trafficking, and discussed how to foster co-operation with relevant state institutions across the country...
OSCE-supported training event enhances interviewing techniques among judges and prosecutors handling cases of sexual abuse and exploitation of children
Publishing date: 16 May 2016
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Youth
On 5-6 May, the OSCE Mission to Moldova held a training event on advanced interviewing skills and techniques for judges and prosecutors handling cases of human trafficking, in particular cases of children who have witnessed or suffered sexual abuse or exploitation. A total of 30 judges and prosecutors took part in the event, held at the National Institute of Justice in Chisinau...
OSCE Special Representative praises Turkey’s government for improving legal protection for human trafficking victims
Publishing date: 13 May 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
ISTANBUL, Turkey, 13 May 2016 – Concluding a one-week official visit to Turkey today, OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Madina Jarbussynova, commended recent changes to the legislative framework that will improve victim protection and identification...
OSCE Presence and Albanian National Anti-Trafficking Co-ordinator organize regional meeting
Publishing date: 13 May 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
TIRANA, 13 May 2016 – Challenges, good practices and needs in the fight against trafficking in human beings were the focus of a regional meeting of National Anti-Trafficking Co-ordinators from South-Eastern Europe hosted on Thursday by the OSCE Presence in Albania and the Albanian National Anti-Trafficking Co-ordinator, together with the International Centre for Migration Policy Development...
OSCE supports seminar for law enforcement on investigating human trafficking in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 29 April 2016
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
The first in a series of five OSCE-supported two-day training seminars for more than 30 law-enforcement officers from 14 regions of Kazakhstan on investigative techniques and methods to counter trafficking in human beings started in Karaganda on 29 April 2016...
Joint public outreach efforts discussed at OSCE-supported inter-agency Platform meeting on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings
Publishing date: 28 April 2016
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
The inter-agency Platform for Action on increasing co-operation in raising public awareness about the risks of trafficking in human beings, supported by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, in co-operation with the Kyrgyz State Service on Migration, held its first meeting in 2016 on 26 April 2016 in Bishkek...