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OSCE supports training for judges on combating human trafficking in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 21 February 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
A one-day OSCE-supported training seminar on good legislative and judicial practices to combat trafficking in persons concluded on 21 February 2019 in Astana.
Holistic approaches to countering human trafficking for labour exploitation explored at OSCE regional workshop in Kyiv
Publishing date: 20 February 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Policing
Some 70 representatives of national institutions of Ukraine and eight other OSCE participating States- the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden and Turkey – completed a two-day workshop in Kyiv on 20 February 2019 focusing on holistic approaches to countering trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation...
Preventing trafficking in human beings in governmental supply chains focus of OSCE-co-organized regional conference in Athens
Publishing date: 1 February 2019
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
ATHENS, 1 February 2019 – A two-day regional conference on preventing trafficking in human beings through government procurement practices and measures, with a focus on the Balkan region, concluded yesterday in Athens, Greece...
Fifth OSCE simulation-based training in combating human trafficking along migration routes concludes in Vicenza
Publishing date: 17 December 2018
Over 70 anti-trafficking practitioners from more than 30 OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation in Europe, Central Asia and North America practiced how to apply a multi-agency and human rights-based approach during the fifth OSCE international simulation-based training to combat
Strengthening OSCE-EU co-operation discussed at first annual high-level meeting held in Brussels
Publishing date: 13 December 2018
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General, OSCE Secretariat
Improving institutional interaction and furthering co-operation between the OSCE and the EU in areas of common interest across all three OSCE security dimensions – politico-military, economic and environmental and human – was the focus of the first-ever EU–OSCE annual high-level meeting, held on 12 December in Brussels.
Guidelines on general principles regarding non-punishment provision of victims of trafficking presented at OSCE-supported event in Podgorica
Publishing date: 12 December 2018
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Policing, Rule of law
Guidelines on general principles regarding non-punishment provisions for victims of trafficking in human beings (THB) were presented to Montenegrin police officers, state prosecutors and judges on 12 December 2018 in Podgorica...
OSCE Ministerial Council in Milan concludes with decisions in OSCE’s politico-military, economic and environmental, and human dimensions
Publishing date: 7 December 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
MILAN, Italy, 7 December 2018 – Decisions and declarations all across three of the OSCE’s security dimensions – the politico-military, economic and environmental, and human dimensions – were agreed by OSCE participating States at close of the 25th OSCE Ministerial Council in Milan today...