FIELD OPERATIONS
THE ALLIANCE AGAINST TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
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150 The full list of the Alliance partners and references to the activities of the relevant organizations are available at: <http://www.osce.org/cthb/43587>, accessed on 11 November 2013.
151 OSCE Offi ce of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Traffi cking in Human Beings (OSR/CTHB) in consultation with the Alliance against Traffi cking in Persons Expert Co-ordination Team, Policy and legislative recommendations towards the effective implementation of the non-punishment provision with regard to victims of traffi cking (Vienna, April 2013).
In 2004, upon the initiative of the fi rst SR/CTHB, the OSCE es-tablished the Alliance against Traffi cking in Persons – an informal and innovative platform for co-operation between the OSCE and other major international organizations and civil society and other non-state actors recognized for their active human rights stand in the fi ght against human traffi cking. In 2011, refl ecting the need to widen membership and include new anti-traffi cking stakehold-ers, the Alliance expanded to include trade unions and employers’
associations and migrant rights groups. In December 2012, the inter-national NGO World Vision and, in December 2013, the Organi-zation of American States (OAS) became the latest members of the Alliance.150
With the aim of developing joint strategies and setting a common agenda to eradicate modern-day slavery, the Alliance combines the eff orts of its more than 30 partners. Th e Alliance’s annual high-lev-el conference and technical seminars hhigh-lev-eld in Vienna provide par-ticipating States with cross-sector knowledge and analysis across and beyond the OSCE region and an insight into national, regional and global anti-traffi cking issues and action.
THE ALLIANCE AGAINST TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
International organizations and agencies
* UNHCR * UNICEF * UNODC * UN OHCHR
* UN WOMEN * ILO * IOM * IFRC * Interpol
* Council of Europe * European Commission * ICMPD
* Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS) * Europol * NATO
* Organization of American States (OAS) Non-governmental organizations
* Amnesty International * Anti-Slavery International
* Churches Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME)
* ECPAT * Human Rights Watch (HRW) * International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC)
* La Strada International * Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM)
* Save the Children * Terre des hommes International Federation * World Vision
Social partners and others
* International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
* International Organisation of Employers (IOE)
* Bureau of the Dutch Rapporteur on Traffi cking in Human Beings
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Elisa Trossero from the International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) speaking during the AECT on 13 December 2013.
The Alliance Expert Co-ordination Team Meeting held at the Hofburg in Vienna on 13 December 2013.
Th e Alliance Expert Co-ordination Team (AECT) meetings are convened by the OSR/CTHB twice a year and serve as a consul-tative forum for the Alliance partners. Th ey provide an opportu-nity to exchange work plans, identify gaps, share emerging facts, developments and challenges to determine priorities, review ap-proaches, share good practices and plan joint actions. Th e AECT meetings were held on 11 March 2013 and 13 December 2013.
Th roughout 2013, in the spirit of the original Alliance, exist-ing partnerships were consolidated and eff orts to reach out to new partners undertaken. Th e SR/CTHB also consulted with the AECT members on current developments in anti-traffi cking ac-tion and shared with them her analysis of the situaac-tion and chal-lenges ahead. Th e regular meetings of the AECT helped advance a common strategic approach, renew the reciprocal commitment to join eff orts, and secure synergies in advocacy and fi eld work.
Particularly noteworthy in this context are the SR/CTHB’s Policy and legislative recommendations towards the eff ective implemen-tation of the non-punishment provision with regard to victims of traffi cking, which were developed in consultation with the Alliance against Traffi cking in Persons Expert Co-ordination Team.151
ANNEXES:
TABLES OF EVENTS, ADDENDUM AND
REFERENCES
OSCE events organized or attended by the SR/CTHB and her offi ce
Organizer Title Date Location Link
OSCE Annual Heads of Mission Meeting 16–18 January Vienna
OSCE OSR/CTHB,
the Italian Chamber of Deputies
Seminar on Co-operation to Prevent Traffi cking in Human Beings in the Mediterranean Region
8 February Rome http://www.osce.org/
cthb/98654 http://www.osce.org/
cthb/108481 OSCE OSR/CTHB Alliance Expert Coordination Team
(AECT) Meeting
11 March Vienna http://www.osce.org/
node/44718 OSCE, Australia’s Department of
Foreign Affairs and Trade
Conference on Improving the Security of Women and Girls
18-19 March Adelaide, Australia
http://www.osce.org/
ec/100186 OSCE, Delegation of the Republic
of Serbia as Chair of the Human Dimension Committee
Human Dimension Committee (HDC) Meeting
16 April Vienna
OSCE OSR/CTHB Expert meeting on Human Traffi cking in the Mediterranean: promoting access to justice
10 May Vienna
OSCE 952nd Meeting of the Permanent
Council
16 May Vienna
OSCE, Delegation of Switzerland as Chair of the Mediterranean Contact Group
Mediterranean Contact Group Meeting on THB
17 May Vienna
OSCE Gender Section Annual Meeting of Focal Points for Gender Issues
27-28 May Baden, Austria
OSCE OSR/CTHB Evaluation / Monitoring Workshop for the Project “Preventing Human Traf-fi cking in Children without Parental Care in the Republic of Moldova”
31 May-2 June Chisinau http://childrights.md/index.
php?option=com_content&view=ar ticle&id=255&Itemid=110
OSCE Chairmanship in Offi ce in co-operation with OSR/CTHB
High-Level Conference
“Strengthening the OSCE Response to Traffi cking in Human Beings”
10-11 June Kyiv http://www.osce.org/
cio/101883
OSCE OSR/CTHB Second Workshop on Prevention of Traffi cking of Human Beings for Domestic Servitude in Diplomatic Households
12-13 June Kyiv http://www.osce.org/
cthb/102673
La Civiltà Cattolica Lectio magistralis 17 June Rome http://www.laciviltacattolica.it/
it/incontri/
OSCE OSR/CTHB Side Event: Launch of Fifth Occa-sional Paper Traffi cking in Human Beings Amounting to Torture and other Forms of Ill-Treatment, 13th Alliance against Traffi cking in Persons Conference
“Stolen Lives, Stolen Money:
The Price of Modern-Day Slavery”
25 June Vienna http://www.osce.org/
cthb/103004 http://www.osce.org/
cthb/103152 http://www.osce.org/
cthb/103085
OSCE OSR/CTHB Side Event: CIS Programme of Co-operation in CTHB: Implemen-tation Experience, Good Practices, Challenges, Perspectives, 13th Alliance against Traffi cking in Persons Conference “Stolen Lives, Stolen Money: The Price of Modern-Day Slavery”
25 June Vienna http://www.osce.org/
cthb/103004
Annexes