News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
First social enterprise to prevent human trafficking in Ukraine starts in Lviv
Publishing date: 29 July 2015
The first social enterprise to prevent human trafficking is launched on 22 July 2015 in Western Ukraine with the support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU). First ten women at-risk of human trafficking, including seven internally displaced persons, started their training in felting as an initial step in functioning of the social enterprise...
OSCE promotes social entrepreneurship to prevent human trafficking in Ukraine
Publishing date: 21 July 2015
ZHYTOMYR, VINNYTSIA, LVIV, 21 JULY 2015- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU), jointly with Ukraine’s Social Policy Ministry, conducted a series of round tables to launch a project in support of social entrepreneurship as a tool to address challenges of trafficking in human beings held on 20-21 July...
OSCE acts to combat human trafficking along migration routes
Publishing date: 6 July 2015
Protecting groups vulnerable to human trafficking along migration routes and in destination countries is the focus of the 2015 Alliance conference, where during the next two days leading experts are looking for new ways to assist at-risk migrants...
OSCE promotes social services for victims of human trafficking in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 26 June 2015
SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan, 26 June 2015 – The OSCE Programme Office in Astana took part in the presentation of the Special Report on Current Challenges in the Protection of Human Rights in Countering Human Trafficking in Kazakhstan and supported a roundtable discussion on special social services for victims of cruel treatment that took place today in Shymkent, South Kazakhstan Region...
OSCE Special Representative stresses importance of victim identification in combating human trafficking
Publishing date: 25 June 2015
LISBON, 25 June 2015 – The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Ambassador Madina Jarbussynova, today underscored the need to improve victim identification at an international seminar on key challenges in the fight against modern-day slavery...
Witnessing greatest refugee crisis in decades, OSCE parliamentarians call for increased burden-sharing
Publishing date: 22 June 2015
COPENHAGEN, 22 June 2015 – The migrant crisis in the Mediterranean is a challenge not just for the countries of that region but for the whole of Europe, concluded the Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), at the close of her four-day visit to Rome, Lampedusa, Catania and Mineo on Sunday...
OSCE-supported training course in Tashkent focuses on improving judicial responses to human trafficking
Publishing date: 22 June 2015
TASHKENT, 22 June 2015 – A two-day training course on improving judicial responses to human trafficking, organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, in co-operation with the Lawyers’ Training Centre under the Uzbek Justice Ministry, was launched today in Tashkent...