Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct. 5 / Trend , G.Dadashova /
An OSCE-supported training course on preventing the trafficking of persons with disabilities was held in Ashgabat on Oct.4.
The three-day "training-of-trainers" course was organized by the public organization "Support Centre for People with Disabilities in Turkmenistan" and focused on the risks of trafficking of people with disabilities, the OSCE reported.
Representatives of regional branches of the organization and of other public bodies involved in human trafficking prevention activities or working with vulnerable groups took part in the event.
"Trafficking in human beings is in all cases an extremely grave crime, but trafficking in persons with disabilities is especially appalling," Head of the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat Sergei Belyaev said.
Through interactive presentations and practical exercises, participants learned how to identify a victim of human trafficking among persons with disabilities and looked into techniques for interviewing and working with different groups with special needs. They also discussed legal assistance and rehabilitation and reintegration programmes for victims from this vulnerable group trafficked.
As part of it co-operation with the OSCE Centre in the area of preventing trafficking in persons from vulnerable groups, the "Support Centre for People with Disabilities" will also organize awareness-raising sessions for persons with disabilities and their relatives, seminars for teachers and social workers throughout the country and will produce information materials on human trafficking.