Not for Sale – Joining Forces Against Trafficking in Human Beings

The Council of Europe (GRETA monitoring mechanism) has evaluated the anti-trafficking action of almost 30 European countries. The aim of this conference is to take stock of the progress made so far and to discuss the challenges in the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Human Trafficking. It also provides an opportunity to exchange on practices and tools and how legally binding standards, monitoring mechanisms and political strategies can mutually reinforce each other and lead to effective action to counter trafficking in human beings.

Beate Andrees, the Head of the ILO Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour, is taking part in this conference organized by the Austrian Government, the Council of Europe, the OSCE and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

An exhibition, jointly organized by the ILO, IOM, the Swiss Government, the UNHCR and the OHCHR, will show the different faces of human exploitation.

This exhibition consists of different stands with information materials highlighting the diversity of exploitation as experienced around the world, as well as some of the national responses. Displaying an array of photographs, definitions and facts, statistics as well as stories of hope and despair, the exhibition seeks to encourage public/expert interaction with the topic of human exploitation, its consequences as well as examples of fighting it.