in preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and took place on 4-5 November in Vienna. The Alliance provided an excellent forum for gathering expertise, exchanging good practices and enhancing dialogue between national authorities, partners and other stakeholders in the OSCE region. The OSR/CTHB also convened two meetings of the Alliance Expert Co-ordination Team (AECT)8. This network is critical for information sharing, strategic networking and joint actions in the OSCE region and contributes significantly to better co-operation and co-ordination among international organizations and with civil society. On 9-10 December 2014, the OSR/CTHB supported the OSCE Centre in Bishkek to deliver a capacity building training to 25 police officers from all over Kyrgyzstan deployed to fight trafficking in human beings. Participants learned about proactive investigations of human trafficking and good practices of victim identification at the international level. In addition to operative officers and investigators, the seminar was attended by civil society representatives. 8 50 AECT includes representatives from OSCE executive structures and institutions, Amnesty International, Anti-Slavery International, Bureau of the Dutch National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings, Caritas, The Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME), Council of Europe, Council of Baltic Sea States, European Commission, EC Expert Group, ECPAT, Europol, Human Rights Watch, International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC), International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), International Labour Organization (ILO), INTERPOL, International Organization of Employers (IOE), International Organization for Migration (IOM), International Federation of Terre des Hommes, International Trade Union Conference (ITUC), La Strada International, Nexus Institute, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM), Save the Children, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), UNICEF Innocenti Research Center, UNODC, UN Women and World Vision International.