Publications
Trafficking in Human Beings Amounting to Torture and other Forms of Ill-treatment
Publishing date: 25 June 2013
Collections: Occasional Paper Series on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Occasional Papers of the Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
Content type: Study / report
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This Fifth Occasional Paper in the Occasional Paper Series of the OSR/CTHB addresses and denounces the use of torture and other forms of ill-treatment by traffickers as a means to subjugate, control and punish trafficked people. It analyses under which circumstances trafficking can amount to torture or other forms of ill-treatment and it identifies the connection between both human rights violations from a clinical perspective. Importantly, the Paper provides the conceptual framework to understand what trafficking cases entail in terms of the physical and psychological effects on trafficked persons, and the legal and clinical implications that flow from this characterization, including in terms of legal entitlements. The Paper builds on the important work of the former UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Professor Dr. Manfred Nowak and the strong and long-standing clinical and policy experience of the British NGO, the Helen Bamber Foundation. Part 1 of the Paper authored by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights outlines and compares the existing legal frameworks on human rights, human trafficking as well as on torture and other forms of ill-treatment. Part 2 of the Paper examines the clinical links between human trafficking and torture, both in terms of the nature (physical and psychological) of the injuries from torture and ill-treatment, the impact of trafficking on victims and what this implies for effective assistance and sustained recovery This Occasional Paper is meant to provide a policy tool for decision makers and practitioners especially from the legal and medical sector dealing with human trafficking. Based on desk research, field work and case study analysis, it is also an excellent tool to inform the daily work of law enforcement, the judiciary, civil society, academia, the medical profession and the international community in their fight against human trafficking which should be firmly based on the rule of law and human rights.
OSCE/ODIHR Annual Report 2008
Publishing date: 14 May 2009
Content type: Annual report
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
ODIHR's annual report provides an overview of the Office's primary activities in the areas of elections, democratization, human rights, tolerance and non-discrimination, and Roma and Sinti issues.
An Agenda for Prevention
Publishing date: 15 December 2011
Collections: Annual Reports of the OSCE Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating THB
Content type: Annual report
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
This Annual Report of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings comprises of two main parts. Part I, An Agenda for Prevention: Activities and Challenges in 2011 is an overview of the main OSCE anti-trafficking activities. Part II has a special thematic focus on trafficking for labour exploitation and contains three experts’ essays which build upon the 11th Alliance against Trafficking in Persons Conference on “Preventing Trafficking in Human Beings for Labour Exploitation: Decent Work and Social Justice” (20- 21 June 2011). Both parts have a single conceptual framework: an agenda for prevention of trafficking in human beings.
Factsheet about the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
Publishing date: 18 September 2007
Collections: ODIHR Publications
Content type: Factsheet
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Regulation of Mass Media Activities during Elections
Publishing date: 23 September 2008
Content type: Book
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Media freedom and development
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Research report by Giovanna Maiola, Osservatorio di Pavia, and Michael Meyer-Resende, Democracy Reporting International, for the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine.
Donor Dialogue Issue no. 12 November 2007
Publishing date: 1 November 2007
Collections: Government-Donor Dialogue newsletters
Content type: Periodical / journal / magazine
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Monthly electronic newsletter by the Donor Technical Secretariat and the Department of Strategy and Donor Coordination, financially supported by the OSCE Presence in Albania
Assisting Georgia: promoting international standards
Publishing date: 12 March 2009
Content type: Book
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
What we do: Elections
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Report on the 2008 presidential and parliamentary elections in Georgia, produced with the support of the OSCE Mission to Georgia
Pictures from the Field
Publishing date: 23 June 2009
Content type: Book
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Photos from the OSCE Mission to Georgia, 2003-09
An agenda for change: Implementing the platform for action against human trafficking
Publishing date: 10 December 2009
Collections: Annual Reports of the OSCE Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating THB
Content type: Annual report
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The 2009 Annual Report of the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings provides an overview of the activities, achievements and challenges of the Special Representative Eva Biaudet's entire three-year term in office. It sets out the agenda that has guided the Special Representative work from 2007-2009, building upon the Platform for Action described in the 2007 Annual Report.
Report on economic and environmental activities: June 2004- May 2005
Publishing date: 9 May 2005
Collections: Annual reports from the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities
Content type: Annual report
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
Publisher: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe