News and press releases

PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 17 October 2012 – On the occasion of European Anti-Trafficking Day, today representatives of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo called for greater awareness of the threat of human trafficking. The appeal was made during a presentation of selected poems and essays written by high school students from different Kosovo communities on this topic...

VIENNA, 11 October 2012 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, at an OSCE-hosted conference, outlined today how discrimination serves as an underlying cause of human trafficking and called for new strategies to fight...

The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, in a three-day trip to Baku from 24 to 26 September 2012 called on the government to increase efforts to combat trafficking for labour exploitation, particularly in cases involving labour migrants in construction and domestic work...

TASHKENT, 17 September 2012- A three-day OSCE training course to help Uzbekistan’s diplomatic and consular personnel identify, assist and protect trafficking victims started today in Tashkent...

CHISINAU, 12 September 2012 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, opened today an anti-trafficking exhibition of photos by children from Moldovan residential schools...

ASTANA, 29 August 2012 – The results of a project on identifying victims of trafficking and ways to improve current practice were the focus of an OSCE-supported roundtable meeting held in Astana today...

EDINBURGH, United Kingdom, 24 August 2012- The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, spoke today at the Festival of Politics highlighting the benefits of using photography, theatre and dance in campaigns to raise awareness about the growing problem of modern-day slavery.