[Stop-traffic] New OSCE special representative against human trafficking

[Angelika Kartusch]

http://www.osce.org/news/generate.pf.php3?news_id=4078

Press Release
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Chairman-in-Office
13 May 2004

Helga Konrad appointed OSCE Chair's special representative against human
trafficking

VIENNA, 13 May 2004 - A leading expert on fighting human trafficking,
former Austrian Government Minister Helga Konrad, has been appointed
OSCE Special Representative on Trafficking in Human Beings by the
Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy.
Addressing the OSCE Permanent Council today, Dr. Konrad said the
Organization was very well placed to help disrupt the trafficking chain
because its 55 participating States include countries of origin, transit
and destination for trafficking.
She noted the importance of the OSCE Action Plan on Trafficking in Human
Beings, adopted at the December 2003 Maastricht Ministerial Council, and
the UN Protocol on Trafficking in Persons.
"It is my intention to tackle all the dimensions of human trafficking,
not just trafficking for sexual exploitation, but also trafficking into
forced and bonded labour and in particular trafficking in children and
minors," she said.
Dr. Helga Konrad, who has been chairing the Task Force on Trafficking in
Human Beings of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, also drew
attention to internal trafficking within countries, which, she said, is
on the rise.

Richard Murphy 
Spokesperson, Press and Public Information Section 
OSCE Secretariat 
Kaerntner Ring 5-7 
1010, Vienna, Austria 
Tel.: +43 1 514 36 180
E-mail: richard.murphy at osce.org




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Mag.a Angelika Kartusch                                                
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin                           
Legal researcher
 
Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte (BIM)
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights
Hessgasse 1, 1010 Wien, Austria                        
tel +43-1-4277-27438, fax +43-1-4277-27429
e-mail angelika.kartusch at univie.ac.at
www.univie.ac.at/bim