News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Special Representative, on follow-up visit to UK, calls for monitoring human rights impact of anti-trafficking and migration policy
Publishing date: 29 May 2012
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, emphasized the protection of human rights of trafficked persons at an event on 28 May 2012 in London jointly organized with the UK Home Office, and with the participation of Damian Green, UK Minister of State for Immigration...
OSCE Centre in Astana launches training on identifying victims of human trafficking
Publishing date: 25 May 2012
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 28 May 2012 – The OSCE Centre in Astana held the first in a series of regional training seminars to improve the identification of trafficking victims in Almaty today...
Immigration regulations and law enforcement action in OSCE area should consider the wellbeing and social inclusion of trafficked persons, says OSCE Special Representative
Publishing date: 18 May 2012
HAIFA, Israel, 20 May 2012 – Speaking today at an international workshop on human trafficking in Israel, the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, underlined that victims of trafficking are subjected to multiple violations of human rights...
More women leaders and stronger political commitment needed to combat human trafficking, say participants at ODIHR event
Publishing date: 15 May 2012
The need for more women leaders and a stronger political commitment by states to combat trafficking in human beings was highlighted at an OSCE event “Political leadership: Who can speak for the victims of trafficking?”, held on 15 May 2012...
Rule of law vital to protecting rights of victims of human trafficking, participants at OSCE meeting say
Publishing date: 14 May 2012
WARSAW, 14 May 2012- The rule of law needs to be strengthened in the fight against human trafficking in order to better protect victims' human rights and ensure them access to justice, participants said today at the opening of an OSCE meeting on the topic...
Head of OSCE Centre meets authorities, opens anti-human trafficking event in western Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 23 April 2012
AKTAU, Kazakhstan, 23 April 2012- The Head of the OSCE Centre in Astana Ambassador Natalia Zarudna, in Aktau on Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea coast today, met with local authorities and civil society representatives and opened a workshop on preventing human trafficking among vulnerable groups in Kazakhstan’s regions...
Parliaments play a critical role in the eradication of modern-day slavery, says OSCE Special Representative at St. Petersburg meeting
Publishing date: 18 April 2012
ST PETERSBURG, Russia 18 April 2012 – The role of parliamentarians in combating and preventing human trafficking at the national and international level was the focus of a roundtable discussion in St. Petersburg today...