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There is an urgent need to enhance the capacities of Ukraine to address the issue of gender-based violence adequately. A three-day assessment mission to the country evidences it. Accompanied by international experts, many NGO, like WAVE (Women Against Violence Europe), met with government stakeholders and representatives of civil society and the international community in Kyiv. Experts saw that preventing and combating gender-based violence and violence against women is an indispensable prerequisite for personal safety and security and thus a major contribution to the stability of a country. Ukraine must undertake efforts to tackle this issue in a comprehensive and inclusive way. Europe’s NGO stand ready to assist the country in these endeavours." The tensions and hostilities have had negative consequences on the prevalence of domestic violence. Internally displaced women in particular have been experiencing increased incidences of violence with reported cases to NG...

OSCE Special Representative promotes sustainable assistance to children without parental care in Eastern Europe MINSK, 3 April 2015 – Preparing children to live independently after they leave state-run boarding schools is a key step in combating human trafficking in minors,”  said on Friday OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Ambassador Madina Jarbussynova. “Teaching life skills is something that we have stressed in our ongoing project for children without parental care,” Jarbussynova added. “It provides them with the tools, as well as the necessary self-confidence, to contribute to their societies as working adults.” The Special Representative made the remarks at the conclusion of a two-day roundtable with leading experts from Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus who gathered in Minsk to exchange good practices and share their expertise. Social workers, government officials and NGO representatives form a core group of experts tha...