 Joint Council of Europe/United Nations Study on
trafficking in organs, tissues and cells and trafficking in human beings
for the purpose of the removal of organs
Link to the study[PDF]
This new joint Council of Europe/United Nations publication was presented at a special launching event in the United Nations
headquarters in New York on 13 October 2009 on the occasion of the 64th Session of
the United Nations General Assembly.
Link
to launching event
The study stresses that trafficking in human beings for the purpose of
organ removal is a small part of the wider problem of organs, tissues
and cells (OTC) and highlights that there is widespread confusion in the
legal and scientific communties between the two types of trafficking,
which require different solutions.
Executive Summary of
the Joint Study
[PDF]
European Union Ministerial Conference "Towards EU Global Action against
Trafficking in Human beings", Brussels, 19-20 October 2009
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe called on the EU
to become party to the Council of Europe Convention on Action against
Trafficking in Human Beings:
Link to speech.
Link to video
Contribution of the Secretariat of the Council of Europe Convention on
Action against Trafficking in Human Beings to the European Union
Ministerial Conference. Link
to document.
 GRETA
- fourth meeting
The fourth meeting of the Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking
in Human Beings (GRETA) will be held on 8-11 December 2009 at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
At this meeting GRETA will examine and adopt a consolidated version of the
draft questionnaire for the first round of evaluation of the implementation by the Parties of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against
Trafficking in Human Beings. More
on GRETA and its members.....
Committee of the Parties
- third meeting
The Committee of the Parties of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against
Trafficking in Human Beings held its third meeting on Monday,
21 September 2009 at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
At this meeting the Committee elected Ambassador Zurab Tchiaberashvili
(Georgia) as Chair for a first term of office of one year and Ambassador
Thomas Hajnoczi (Austria) as Vice-Chair also for a first term of office
of one year. The Committee also held an exchange of views with
the President of GRETA, continued its
discussion on the European Commission Proposal for a "Council Framework Decision on preventing
and combating trafficking in human beings, and protecting victims"
and considered possible topics for thematic debates relating to
trafficking in human beings.
More
on the Committee of the Parties.....
Slovenia 26th state to ratify
the
Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human
Beings
The Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in
Human Beings entered into force on 1 February 2008. The Convention
was ratified by Slovenia on 3 September 2009. For Slovenia the Convention will enter into force on 1
January 2010.
The Convention has been ratified by
Albania,
Armenia, Austria,
Belgium,
Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Croatia,
Cyprus,
Denmark,
France,
Georgia,
Latvia,
Luxembourg,
Malta,
Moldova, Montenegro,
Norway,
Poland, Portugal,
Romania,
Serbia,
Slovakia,
Slovenia,
Spain , "the
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" and the
United Kingdom.
It has also been signed but not yet ratified by another 15 Council of Europe member
states: Andorra, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
Iceland, Italy, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands,
San Marino, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine.
Information Document CM/Inf (2008)28 : Council of Europe's action
to combat trafficking in human beings
(PDF)
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