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OSCE Moldova Mission offers training to young Roma leaders on fighting trafficking
Publishing date: 30 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Roma and Sinti
CHISINAU, 30 September 2004- A workshop aimed at helping young Roma leaders to combat human trafficking started today in Chisinau. The 3-day event is among the first of its kind in Moldova. As part of the OSCE Mission's framework two-year project...
OSCE Moldova Mission trains judges, prosecutors in combating human trafficking
Publishing date: 29 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
CHISINAU, 29 September 2004- The first of a series of six anti-trafficking training seminars for judges and prosecutors started today in Orhei, 50 kilometres north of the Moldovan capital. Investigating and prosecuting human trafficking cases while...
OSCE/ODIHR conference in Helsinki calls for wider co-operation to assist victims of trafficking
Publishing date: 24 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
HELSINKI, 24 September 2004- A two-day conference on protection of victims of trafficking concluded today by putting forward a set of recommendations which will serve as a basis for future work of OSCE States in combating trafficking. Participants...
OSCE/ODIHR conference in Helsinki calls for human rights protection of trafficking victims
Publishing date: 23 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
HELSINKI, 23 September 2004- Taking concrete steps, such as improving anti-trafficking legislation and focusing on protecting the human rights of victims, is the aim of a two-day OSCE conference that started in Helsinki today. Some 180 international...
OSCE Mission and La Strada Moldova to help develop best practices guide in assisting trafficking victims
Publishing date: 23 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
CHISINAU, 23 September 2004- The second workshop in a series of training courses on assisting trafficking victims after their traumatic experience started today in Molovata Noua, near the Moldovan capital. The courses are financed by the OSCE Mission...
OSCE holds experts meeting in Armenia to discuss victim and witness protection
Publishing date: 15 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights
YEREVAN, 15 September 2004- The OSCE Office in Yerevan organized a two-day expert meeting in Tsakhkadzor that aimed at contributing to the criminalization of human trafficking and the protection of victims' human rights in Armenia...
OSCE-UNODC conference calls for better information sharing on border management
Publishing date: 9 September 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
VIENNA, 9 September 2004- Experts from 16 international organizations attending a conference on promoting more effective border management and security called for an increase in information sharing to address challenges of "open but safe borders". On