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TOWARDS A COMMON AND COMPREHENSIVE SECURITY MODEL FOR EUROPE FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

STOCKHOLM DECLARATION OF THE OSCE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY

9 July 1996

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CHAPTER III

(DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN QUESTIONS)

The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly,

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83. Commending the IOM and the European Union for convening a meeting focusing on the deplorable practice of trafficking in women and girls, which is estimated to involve more than 500,000 victims in Europe;

84. Aware that this practice extends to hundreds of thousands of additional victims beyond the borders of the OSCE community and that the trafficking in women and girls in the OSCE region is inherently related to the global phenomenon of organized crime relating to slavery, forced labour and forced prostitution;

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101. Calls upon reforming countries as well as Western states to consider negative social aspects of economic transition, such as the trafficking in women from reforming countries and the need for a more coordinated policy to combat this form of organized crime.