News and press releases

COPENHAGEN, 4 September 2015 – Nearly 200 lawmakers from across the OSCE’s 57 participating States will gather in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on 15-18 September for the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 2015 Autumn Meeting...

The OSCE Programme Office in Astana, marking the World Day against Trafficking in Persons, supported a public awareness campaign on combating trafficking in human beings in Astana on 30 July 2015. The initiative was carried out in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the local NGO “Korgau” and in co-operation with the City Police Administration...

MINSK, 30 July 2015 – Human trafficking is a violation of human rights and an offence to the dignity and integrity of its victims. We must focus our efforts to protecting the most vulnerable – especially children, said the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings Madina Jarbussynova as she opened a high-level workshop in Minsk today to mark the World Day against Trafficking in Human Beings...

The first social enterprise to prevent human trafficking is launched on 22 July 2015 in Western Ukraine with the support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU). First ten women at-risk of human trafficking, including seven internally displaced persons, started their training in felting as an initial step in functioning of the social enterprise...

ZHYTOMYR, VINNYTSIA, LVIV, 21 JULY 2015- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU), jointly with Ukraine’s Social Policy Ministry, conducted a series of round tables to launch a project in support of social entrepreneurship as a tool to address challenges of trafficking in human beings held on 20-21 July...

Protecting groups vulnerable to human trafficking along migration routes and in destination countries is the focus of the 2015 Alliance conference, where during the next two days leading experts are looking for new ways to assist at-risk migrants...

SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan, 26 June 2015 – The OSCE Programme Office in Astana took part in the presentation of the Special Report on Current Challenges in the Protection of Human Rights in Countering Human Trafficking in Kazakhstan and supported a roundtable discussion on special social services for victims of cruel treatment that took place today in Shymkent, South Kazakhstan Region...