trafficking for forced criminality and for labour exploitation, trafficking in children, and the use of information and communication technologies to commit human trafficking offences. Police raid to rescue human trafficking victims, conducted as part of an international Russian-language simulationbased exercise organized by the OSR/CTHB in Nur-Sultan, From 5 to 7 June, the OSR/CTHB contributed to the “Inter-regional workshop on strengthening capacities for effective cross border criminal justice co-operation and national reporting, referral, and co-ordination mechanisms in combating trafficking in persons”, organized in Chisinau, Moldova by UNODC in collaboration with the Permanent Secretariat to Moldova’s National Committee for CTHB. The event was attended by members of the police forces, investigators, prosecutors and judges from Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey. Kazakhstan, in September 2018. (OSCE/Colin McCullough) promising practices across the OSCE region. The panellists included representatives of municipalities, parliamentary committees, financial investigators, workers’ rights and religious organizations, as well as survivors themselves, who shared examples of successful partnership models that broaden the scope and outreach of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency programmes. From 10 to 11 May, the OSR/CTHB contributed to an "OSCEwide Conference on the Reverse Flow of Foreign Terrorist Fighters", conducted in Rome, Italy, by sharing its expertise at a side-event on preventing THB for the purpose of terrorist activities. At the side event, which was attended by numerous national counter-terrorism co-ordinators, senior experts and practitioners, including prosecutors, intelligence officers and representatives of ministries, the Office presented the preliminary findings of its research on the nexus of human trafficking and terrorism. On 22 May, the SR/CTHB addressed the conference “Ten years of implementation of the Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings: impact and challenges ahead”, organized by the CoE in Strasbourg, France. Emphasis was put on the human rights-based and victim-centred approach required to prevent trafficking, protect victims, prosecute traffickers and engage in partnerships so as to achieve progress in combating human trafficking. On 23 May, the OSR/CTHB and CoE co-organized an annual "Meeting of National Anti-Trafficking Co-ordinators and Rapporteurs" in Strasbourg. The participants from 41 OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation engaged in an exchange on current trends and patterns of trafficking in human beings, including experiences with tackling human 40 On 6 and 7 June 2018, the OSR/CTHB contributed to the “Regional Round Table on Investigation, Prevention and Prosecution of IT-Facilitated Human Trafficking Crimes”, organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine. Aimed at increasing the capacity of Ukrainian criminal justice practitioners in investigating and prosecuting ICT-facilitated human trafficking cases, the event was attended by 39 antitrafficking and cybercrime police officers, prosecutors and judges from Kherson, Mykolayiv, Odesa and Zaporizhia regions. On 27 June, the OSR/CTHB participated in an international roundtable meeting on “How can aviation contribute to combatting human trafficking?”, organized by the IOM in Bern in co-operation with Switzerland’s Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. The event brought together state, interstate and non-state stakeholders involved in counter-trafficking in Switzerland, as well as representatives of the aviation industry and airport border police. The goal of the meeting was to exchange promising practices and strategic lines of action to feed into standardized procedures of THB identification and reporting at airports. On 9 July, the OSR/CTHB contributed to three committee meetings focused on the project, “CTHB along migration routes: the importance of a human rights and victim-centred approach”. Among other things, the discussions at these meetings elaborated on the role of law enforcement agencies, including specialized units, in addressing THB. From 5 to 6 September, the OSR/CTHB took part in a regional roundtable meeting on “Investigation, Prevention and Prosecution of IT-Facilitated Human Trafficking Crimes”, organized in Vinnytsia, Ukraine by the OSCE Project Coordinator in Ukraine. Twenty-five Ukrainian police officers,