News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Chairperson supports counter-drugs training course for Afghan police officers
Publishing date: 10 November 2010
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 10 November 2010- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Kazakhstan's Foreign Minister and Secretary of State Kanat Saudabayev, stressed the importance of tackling drug problems and security issues in Afghanistan...
Armenian students discuss migration and trafficking at Model OSCE organized by OSCE Office in Yerevan
Publishing date: 5 November 2010
YEREVAN, 5 November 2010- Armenian students began a session of a Model OSCE Permanent Council today with discussions of trafficking and migration matters...
Organization of American States Secretary General stresses need for strengthened regional co-operation in address to OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 27 October 2010
VIENNA, 28 October 2010- Jose Miguel Insulza, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), in his address to the OSCE Permanent Council today stressed the importance of strengthened co-operation in addressing security challenges...
OSCE Special Representative calls for private sector to ensure supply chains free from exploitation
Publishing date: 19 October 2010
BRUSSELS, 19 October 2010- Ensuring that supply chains are free from all forms of exploitation is an important element of companies' social engagement and contribute to fighting human trafficking, said the OSCE Special Representative...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator supports seminar to prevent trafficking of labour migrants' children
Publishing date: 13 October 2010
KYIV, 13 October 2010- An OSCE-supported seminar that started today looks at how social workers can help protect labour migrants' children from human trafficking...
Protecting the rights of every child is key to preventing trafficking, OSCE Special Representative says at Alliance meeting
Publishing date: 7 October 2010
WARSAW, 7 October 2010- Child protection must be a priority for efforts to prevent child trafficking to be effective, the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, said today...
OSCE well placed to counter human trafficking as integral part of organised crime, transnational threat, says Special Representative
Publishing date: 29 September 2010
MOSCOW, 29 September 2010- The OSCE, as a unique organization, is well placed to counter the human trafficking challenge, said Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, OSCE Special Representative for Combating Human Trafficking, at a workshop in Moscow today...