Using Technology to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings: Turning a Liability into an Asset

March 25, 2019

Two computers The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is hosting the 19th Alliance Against Trafficking in Persons on April 8-9, 2019. HHS will participate to discuss using technology to strengthen the health care response to human trafficking. 

Event Description

The Alliance against Trafficking in Persons is an informal platform for advocacy and cooperation that includes international and civil society organizations. The Alliance was launched in 2004 to combine and co-ordinate the efforts of all its partners behind the common goal of preventing and combating human trafficking. Acting as a framework to improve synergy, the Alliance also supports the OSCE participating States in establishing a harmonized approach to combat this heinous crime which violates human rights and undermines the rule of law, human security and good migration governance throughout the region.

The 2019 OSCE Alliance against Trafficking in Persons Conference will focus on two goals: (1) improving understanding of how technology is being misused to facilitate trafficking so that better responses can be built, and (2) exploring how technology can be developed, harmonized and deployed to help combat all forms of trafficking. The Alliance Conference will discuss contemporary approaches and available promising practices and debate how national legal and institutional frameworks could be improved to allow replications of these good practices on a wider scale. It will also examine how technology’s potential can be leveraged in order to support victims to break the vicious cycle of human trafficking.

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