The BSPC Working Group on Civil Security, especially trafficking in human beings, will aim at elaborating joint BSPC policy recommendations within this policy area.

The Working Group is chaired by Line Barfod, MP, Denmark. Vice Chairmen are André O Dahl, MP, Norway, and Johan Linander, MP, Sweden.

The Working Group held its inaugural meeting in Copenhagen on 3 february 2010. The Group discussed its mandate, objectives and working methods. Its main focus will be trafficking in human beings, understood as a form of modern slavery and exploitation. Eva Biaudet, former OSCE Special Representative and Coordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, and Christer Pursiainen, Senior Advisor at CBSS, gave background presentations on trafficking and civil security.

The second meeting of the Working Group will be convened in Stockholm on 8 April.

Points of contact for the Working Group:

Kamilla Kjelgaard
Head of Section
The International Secretariat
The Parliament of Denmark
Christiansborg
DK-1240 Copenhagen K
Denmark
+45 3337 3762
Kamilla.kjelgaard@ft.dk

Jan Widberg
Head of BSPC Secretariat
C/o Nordic Council
Store Strandstraede 18
DK-1255 Copenhagen
Denmark
+45 2469 9446
jw@norden.org