News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Special Representative calls for better protection of trafficking victims' rights in criminal proceedings
Publishing date: 2 February 2011
ROME, 2 February 2011 – Courts should protect trafficked persons' rights and enable them to take an active role throughout criminal proceedings, said Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings today in a high-level roundtable meeting organized by the Italian National Judicial Council...
ODIHR co-organizes forum for Polish trade union lawyers on combating human trafficking
Publishing date: 19 January 2011
A two-day workshop in Warsaw on 18-19 January will examine the role of trade unions in combating forced labour and human trafficking.
OSCE Centre supports anti-trafficking training for border guard officials and transport police
Publishing date: 16 December 2010
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 17 December 2010- An OSCE-supported training seminar for border guards, transport police officers and civil society representatives on the identification of human trafficking victims and inter-agency cooperation took place today with the support of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek.
OSCE supports preventing human trafficking, assisting victims in Armenia
Publishing date: 16 December 2010
AGHVERAN, Armenia, 17 December 2010- A national forum on the implementation of the Armenian national referral procedure of trafficked victims organized by the Anti-Trafficking Support and Resource Unit (ATSRU) established by the OSCE office and operating within the Labour and Social Affairs Ministry of Armenia, started today in Aghveran...
OSCE Office in Baku supports anti-trafficking workshop for officials who deal with victims
Publishing date: 13 December 2010
MINGACHEVIR, Azerbaijan, 14 December 2010 – An OSCE-supported workshop that addresses the law enforcement training component of Azerbaijan's national action plan to fight against human trafficking began today in Mingachevir, central Azerbaijan...
OSCE Special Representative calls for recognition of trafficking in human beings as massive-scale problem in new report
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
VIENNA, 9 December- The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, called on countries to change their perception considering human trafficking as a marginal phenomenon and instead encouraged them to recognize it as a massive-scale modern-day slavery in a speech today to the OSCE Permanent Council...
OSCE Special Representative calls for better protection of children to prevent trafficking in human beings
Publishing date: 6 December 2010
BRUSSELS, 7 December- Authorities should ensure children's bests interests in all actions concerning children, said the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro said today at a conference on the protection of children's rights...