News and press releases

BAKU/BUDAPEST, 22 September 2014 – The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku, in co-operation with the Interior Ministry of Hungary is supporting a five-day visit to Hungary, which starts today, by representatives of Azerbaijan’s government and civil society working on preventing and combatting human trafficking...

ASTANA, 17 September 2014 – A roundtable discussion as part of the National Dialogue series on access to special social services for victims of cruel treatment, including victims of human trafficking and domestic violence, took place today in Astana...

TASHKENT, 17 September 2014 – The National Conference on Trafficking in Human Beings with a focus on capacity-building of governmental and non-governmental actors opened in Tashkent yesterday. The conference is co-organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, the Republican Inter-agency Commission on Combating Human Trafficking and the General Prosecutor`s Office...

VIENNA, 4 September 2014 – OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier today welcomed Ambassador Madina Jarbussynova of Kazakhstan as the new Special Representative and Co-ordinator to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings...

The Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, in a report published on 14 August 2014, lauded the Romanian Government for keeping the fight against human trafficking high on its political agenda...

A two-day training seminar for law enforcement officers on investigative techniques and methods to counter trafficking in human beings is taking place in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 8 and 9 August 2014...

Armenia’s Draft Law on Identification of and Assistance to the Victims of Human Trafficking was in focus of a discussion held by the OSCE Office in Yerevan for government officials and representatives of civil society from 25 to 27 July 2014 in Aghveran, Armenia...