OSCE launches training seminars in Kazakhstan on providing social services to human trafficking victims
The OSCE Programme Office in Astana launched a series of four one-day training seminars on 23 October 2015 in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, on providing social services to victims of human trafficking.
The seminar, organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana in co-operation with the Healthcare and Social Development Ministry (HSDM), brought together some 50 social workers, representatives of the HSDM and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). They were introduced to the ways of implementing the recently-developed social standard for victims of human trafficking.
National and international experts, including a representative from the Interior Ministry, explained the requirements for the assisting NGOs, in line with national legislation, on tasks and functions for victims of human trafficking, including the conditions of admission, forms of identification, the minimum standard of care and services to be provided to victims as well as to those who consented to file a criminal case.
The social standard, which comes into force in January 2016, outlines the requirements for the conditions and procedures to be followed by state and non-governmental organizations in providing social services to victims, including temporary shelter.
The seminar is part of the Office’s efforts to assist the host authorities and civil society in combating and preventing trafficking in human beings and in providing social services to victims.
Similar training seminars will take place in Almaty, Kostanay and Astana in 2015.