News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
First OSCE simulation-based training in combating human trafficking along Mediterranean migration routes concludes in Vicenza
Publishing date: 20 September 2019
VICENZA, Italy, 20 September 2019 – The first simulation-based training for practitioners across the Mediterranean region and beyond concluded today in Vicenza, Italy...
OSCE/FRONTEX joint conference on preventing document fraud discusses co-operation in Western Balkans region
Publishing date: 12 September 2019
A co-ordination conference for the Western Balkans region on preventing document fraud was held on 11 and 12 September 2019 in Vienna, organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department in close co-operation with the FRONTEX Center of Excellence for Combating Document Fraud.
OSCE fosters co-operation among Baltic States, Moldova and Ukraine in combating abuse of new technologies for human trafficking, sexual exploitation
Publishing date: 6 August 2019
Senior prosecutors and law enforcement representatives specialized in anti-human trafficking and cybercrimes from Belarus, Estonia, France, Italy, Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States completed a two-day workshop on 31 July 2019 in Minsk on effective investigative techniques to combat human trafficking for sexual exploitation that is facilitated by new technologies...
Governments need to ramp up efforts to combat human trafficking, OSCE says
Publishing date: 30 July 2019
WARSAW / VIENNA, 30 July 2019 – Governments must increase their efforts to combat trafficking in human beings and put the human rights and needs of victims at the centre of all responses, the OSCE said on the occasion of the World Day against Trafficking in Persons...
OSCE workshop to promote the identification of victims of trafficking concludes in Sarajevo
Publishing date: 18 July 2019
SARAJEVO, 18 July 2019 – A workshop on identifying victims of human trafficking in migration flows concluded today in Sarajevo. Organized jointly by the OSCE Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (OSR/CTHB) and the OSCE’s field operations in South-Eastern Europe, the workshop focused on implementing the OSCE’s uniform guidelines to identify victims of human trafficking...
Second OSCE Russian-language live exercise to fight human trafficking for responders from Europe and Asia kicks off in Nur-Sultan
Publishing date: 24 June 2019
NUR-SULTAN, 24 June 2019 – An OSCE-organized week-long simulation exercise on how to identify and rescue victims of human trafficking kicks off today at the Regional Hub for Countering Global Threats in Nur-Sultan. More than 70 professionals from law enforcement, labour inspectorates, border and migration authorities, prosecutorial offices, NGOs and public social services from 17 OSCE participating States are participating in the live-action training...
Report of OSCE-supported Conference on Tackling Modern Slavery, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in Public Procurement Supply Chains
Publishing date: 11 June 2019
Vienna, 11 June 2019- The report of the International Conference on Tackling Modern Slavery, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in Public Procurement Supply Chains, held in London in March this year, was published today.