News and press releases

BRUSSELS, 3 February 2011- The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, emphasized the need for enhanced co-operation with the European Commission to advance anti-trafficking action in a meeting with European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström in Brussels today...

ROME, 2 February 2011 – Courts should protect trafficked persons' rights and enable them to take an active role throughout criminal proceedings, said Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings today in a high-level roundtable meeting organized by the Italian National Judicial Council...

A two-day workshop in Warsaw on 18-19 January will examine the role of trade unions in combating forced labour and human trafficking.

VIENNA, 9 December- The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, called on countries to change their perception considering human trafficking as a marginal phenomenon and instead encouraged them to recognize it as a massive-scale modern-day slavery in a speech today to the OSCE Permanent Council...

BRUSSELS, 7 December- Authorities should ensure children's bests interests in all actions concerning children, said the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro said today at a conference on the protection of children's rights...

CHISINAU, 25 November 2010-The OSCE Mission to Moldova today launched a series of awareness-raising activities, including continuing performances of a play, as part of the international 16-Day Campaign Against Gender-Based Violence...

VIENNA, 19 November 2010- Experts in anti-trafficking discussed today how to help police officers identify human trafficking victims. The conclusions from the OSCE-organized meeting will be included in a guide that will be distributed to police...