News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Special Representative travels to eastern Ukraine to raise awareness of human trafficking in crisis situations
Publishing date: 22 May 2015
DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine 22 May 2015 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Ambassador Madina Jarbussynova, highlighted the risks of modern day slavery in crisis situations during a week-long visit to eastern Ukraine.
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan trains law enforcement police officers on detecting and investigating human trafficking
Publishing date: 30 April 2015
TASHKENT, 30 April 2015- A three-day course on the identifying and investigating human trafficking cases with participation of 25 police agents and investigators working at airports and railway stations and representing the Transport Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs ended today...
OSCE Centre conducts ethics training for Kyrgyz journalists reporting on human trafficking
Publishing date: 28 April 2015
BISHKEK, 28 April 2015 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek is supporting a training course for journalists titled Trafficking in human being: journalists’ ethics and social responsibility of media to be held on 28 April 2015 in Bishkek...
OSCE, Council of Europe hold workshop for judges and prosecutors on protecting human trafficking victims’ rights
Publishing date: 27 April 2015
STRASBOURG, France, 27 April 2015 – The OSCE and the Council of Europe launched today a two-day workshop for judges and prosecutors to discuss important measures that will enable them to strengthen the legal rights of human trafficking victims...
OSCE supports working group meeting on social standards for human trafficking victims in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 24 April 2015
The OSCE Programme Office in Astana supported the final meeting of the interdepartmental working group established with the aim to develop standards of social services for victims of human trafficking that was held in Almaty on 24 April 2015...
OSCE officials highlight co-operation by regional and global organizations as key to fighting transnational crime
Publishing date: 15 April 2015
DOHA, 15 April 2015 – Two senior OSCE officials speaking on Tuesday at the Thirteenth UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, which runs from 12-19 April in Doha, stressed the need for common efforts by regional and global organizations to more effectively combat transnational organized crime...
Monitors from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine focus on human trafficking during Kyiv training
Publishing date: 8 April 2015
KYIV, 8 April 2015 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Ambassador Madina Jarbussynova, stressed the importance of raising awareness about human trafficking among monitors from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) at the end of a two-day training designed to improve their ability to spot this heinous crime...