ILO/OSCE/ICMPD workshop to support Georgian government’s anti-trafficking efforts
On May 29, the ILO in cooperation with the OSCE Mission to Georgia and the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) organized Tbilisi’s workshop to help Georgia’s government prepare a new national action plan to combat trafficking in human beings in the country for 2009-2010.
29 May 2008
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The workshop was carried out within the framework of the EC-funded regional project on the development of comprehensive anti-trafficking response in South Caucasus.
“Trafficking in human beings is not only a hateful crime but also the violation of human rights and human dignity. The OSCE Mission has been actively supporting Georgia’s authorities in the development and implementation of anti-trafficking policies and programmes in compliance with the OSCE standards,” said Guillaume Siemienski, Head of the Human Dimension Office of the OSCE Mission to Georgia.
“Although over the past several years Georgia has made impressive progress in combating trafficking in human beings, this terrible crime is flexible and ever-evolving. The only way to address the problem effectively is to pool stakeholders’ efforts and take into account all forms, root-causes and dimension of human trafficking,” said Zsolt Dudas, ILO Chief Technical Adviser in the South Caucasus.
“We hope our efforts will help the Georgian government's prepare and implement a new National Action Plan for 2009-2010,” added Dudas.
Among attendees were representatives of different state agencies, international organizations and NGOs, including the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Internal Affairs and Justice, as well as the International Organization of Migration and the European Commission.
“Trafficking in human beings is not only a hateful crime but also the violation of human rights and human dignity. The OSCE Mission has been actively supporting Georgia’s authorities in the development and implementation of anti-trafficking policies and programmes in compliance with the OSCE standards,” said Guillaume Siemienski, Head of the Human Dimension Office of the OSCE Mission to Georgia.
“Although over the past several years Georgia has made impressive progress in combating trafficking in human beings, this terrible crime is flexible and ever-evolving. The only way to address the problem effectively is to pool stakeholders’ efforts and take into account all forms, root-causes and dimension of human trafficking,” said Zsolt Dudas, ILO Chief Technical Adviser in the South Caucasus.
“We hope our efforts will help the Georgian government's prepare and implement a new National Action Plan for 2009-2010,” added Dudas.
Among attendees were representatives of different state agencies, international organizations and NGOs, including the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Internal Affairs and Justice, as well as the International Organization of Migration and the European Commission.