The Alliance against Trafficking in Persons is a platform for advocacy and co-operation that includes international and civil society organizations and is co-ordinated by the OSCE Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings. The Alliance was launched in 2004 to combine the efforts of all its partners and improve synergies behind the common goal of preventing and combating human trafficking.
Identifying effective ways to improve the prosecution of trafficking in human beings (THB) and deliver justice to victims was the focus of the 20th High-Level Alliance Conference against Trafficking in Persons. During three days, State representatives, survivors of trafficking in human beings, international and non-governmental organizations and academic experts discussed challenges and opportunities to enhance the investigation and prosecution of trafficking in human beings in the OSCE region.
Extreme poverty and lack of livelihood opportunities result in some families sending their children to work on cocoa farms. It is reported that some children are ‘sold’ to traffickers or farm owners, paying for a determined duration of labour. Children...
Newsletter Announcement can be found here. ABOUT THE AWARD The Stop Slavery Award was launched by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, as an action resulting from the 2015 Trust Conference. The initiative recognises companies that have taken concrete...Read More
Given the rapid development of initiatives aimed at helping businesses fight human trafficking, the RESPECT Initiative (comprising Babson College’s Initiative on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime and the International Organization for Migration (IOM)),...
On the 8th April, the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime co-hosted a webinar with the UN Global Compact on 21st Century cybercrime threats and the challenges they present to human security and human rights. The panel featured the following speakers drawn...
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