Human Rights
Forged documents confiscated
by the Spanish Police from
immigrants exploited for labour
purposes.
handbook. The translation was produced by a
local human rights association, Justice and Liberty, in a joint project with the OSCE Mission
to Georgia.
V. Anti-trafficking
To further promote National Referral Mechanism (NRM) principles and the need for a
human rights approach to trafficking, ODIHR
contributed to a number of conferences and
events in 2008. One of these was the United
Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking forum, held in Vienna in February, where
ODIHR made a presentation on “Civil Society
Cooperation with Law Enforcement”. Representatives of international and non-governmental organizations and government officials discussed issues related to the protection of victims
of trafficking.
To support the development of anti-trafficking policy in the Russian Federation, the concept of National Referral Mechanisms Assessments was presented and discussed in February during a conference co-organized with the
Moscow office of the International Organization for Migration. The aim of the report was
to raise awareness about good practices and
gaps in the identification and protection of trafficked persons in Russia, with a special emphasis
on the situation of exploited migrant workers.
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The report was subsequently used by government officials and NGOs as a resource to help
improve their anti-trafficking work.
Another important opportunity for ODIHR
to evaluate how participating States have developed NRM systems came at a regional conference on the issue organized in October by
La Strada Moldova, an NGO, with participants from Belarus, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates
and Ukraine. A number of these states presented NRM reviews at the event. ODIHR contributed extensively to the development of the
concept for the conference and its agenda, as
well as providing support for the participation of NGOs from Russia. Of particular interest was the opportunity to assess how effective
attempts to identify and assist trafficked persons have been.
To highlight the need for individual legal
remedies for victims of trafficking and, more
specifically, to ensure their right to compensation, ODIHR launched the publication Compensation for Trafficked and Exploited Persons
in the OSCE Region in May in Vienna. Based on
country profiles of eight OSCE participating
States, the publication assesses different mechanisms for the compensation of trafficked persons, identifies good compensation practices,
and offers recommendations for future action.
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