OSCE/ODIHR: Human Dimension Implementation Meeting

The Human Dimension Implementation Meeting will take place this year between 26 September and 7 October 2011 in Warsaw.

As usual, it will be attended by the delegations to the OSCE, governmental experts from the capitals and civil society organizations. Our working session on trafficking this year will be on 6 October, and it will be looking at the implementation of anti-trafficking commitments with particular attention to trafficked persons' access to justice and effective remedies. We believe this focus is very timely, and it is one that many of you have been working with us closely on over the last years. We are very pleased that our working session will be co-opened by the ODIHR Director, Ambassador Lenarcic, and the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro and introduced and moderated by the UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, especially women and children, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo.

On the margins of the trafficking working session on 6 October, our Office will also be supporting and moderating a side event on child protection, organized by the Project Mario partners: ECPAT, Nobody’s Children Foundation, Save the Children Albania and Terre des Hommes. The side event, which is also supported and will be opened by the OSCE Special Representative and the UN Special Rapporteur is a follow-up to the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons Joint Statement on Child Protection, Especially among Migrant, Undocumented, Unaccompanied, Separated and Asylum Seeking Children, to enhance Prevention of Child Trafficking, presented at the OSCE Review Conference in Warsaw in October 2010. At the event, a number of concrete initiatives at policy and practical level will be presented and discussed, which aim at enhancing the protection of vulnerable children and improving local and national child protection systems to prevent child trafficking.

For more information consult OSCE and ODIHR web pages.