News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Leading by example: OSCE organizes meeting of ICAT and UN Procurement Task Force to co-ordinate efforts to prevent trafficking in supply chains
Publishing date: 10 December 2019
What if the seafood served in the cafeteria at your organization was caught and processed as a result of trafficked labour occurring on the other side of the world? Preventing labour exploitation in supply chains was the focus of a meeting organized by the Office of the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings for members of the Inter-agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons (ICAT) and the UN’s Procurement Task Force in Vienna on 10 December 2019...
OSCE 2019 co-chairing of ICAT shows effectiveness of multilateralism in action
Publishing date: 6 December 2019
BRATISLAVA, 6 December 2019- A event on “Effective Multilateralism in Action: OSCE co-chairing of ICAT, a year in review” was held yesterday on the margins of the OSCE Ministerial Council. The panel discussion focused on key milestones of this year’s co-chairpersonship, by the OSCE, of the UN’s Inter-agency Coordination Group Against Trafficking in Persons (ICAT)., 6 December 2019- A event on “Effective Multilateralism in Action: OSCE co-chairing of ICAT, a year in review” was held yesterday on the margins of the OSCE Ministerial Council. The panel discussion focused on key milestones of this year’s co-chairpersonship, by the OSCE, of the UN’s Inter-agency Coordination Group Against Trafficking in Persons (ICAT)...
Monaco Minister of Foreign Affairs, OSCE Secretary General sign agreement on project Combating Human Trafficking along Mediterranean Migration Routes
Publishing date: 6 December 2019
On the margins of the 26th OSCE Ministerial Council in Bratislava, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation of the Principality of Monaco Laurent Anselmi and OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger signed an agreement on 5 December 2019 on Monaco’s support for the OSCE project “Combating Human Trafficking along Mediterranean Migration Routes”...
OSCE conducts training on countering transnational crime and identification of foreign terrorist fighters for border officers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 28 November 2019
An OSCE-supported three-day training course on countering transnational crime and identification of potential foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) concluded on 28 November 2019 in Aktau, Kazakhstan...
Strengthening Organizational and Legal Mechanisms of Combating Human Trafficking focus of OSCE-supported roundtable
Publishing date: 27 November 2019
National anti-trafficking state agencies, civil society organizations and international experts gathered in Tashkent on 26 November 2019 for a round-table discussion on good practices and challenges in national frameworks to combat trafficking in human beings...
Judges from across the OSCE region meet in Uzbekistan to discuss how to enhance the judicial response to human trafficking
Publishing date: 14 November 2019
TASHKENT, 14 November 2019- Judges of the highest criminal courts from 23 countries gathered for a two-day OSCE-wide conference on the role of the judiciary in combating trafficking in human beings that concluded today. The participants discussed current human trafficking-related challenges and ways to foster the implementation of OSCE commitments. Strengthening the role of the judiciary as a part of the criminal justice system as a way to effectively combat trafficking in human beings was also discussed.
“Following the money”: OSCE presents groundbreaking resource and guide for financial investigators to support countering human trafficking efforts
Publishing date: 11 November 2019
VIENNA, 11 November 2019 – Human trafficking is at its core a financially motivated crime, and yet anti-trafficking efforts in the area of financial investigations are falling short across the OSCE region. In response to this, the Office of the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings presented today a groundbreaking compendium of resources for financial investigators based on a review of publications across the globe together with a practical step-by-step guide...