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Preface
 “Where OSCE governments meet, NGOs cannot be missed”
Mr. Cees Flinterman (Chairperson)
1 Opening
“The OSCE should face the truth”
Mr. Aaron Rhodes (IHF)

“I hope this NGO meeting will be the start of a tradition”
Mr. Daan Everts (Personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office)

2 OSCE Priorities and Perspectives from Civil Society
“We’re facing a human rights crisis”
Mr. Yevgeniy Zhovtis (Kazakhstan International Bureau on Human Rights and Rule of Law)
on Civil and Political Rights in Transitional Countries

Religious Freedom and the Struggle against Terrorism
“Indirectly, ‘September 11’ affected religious freedom”
Mr. Krassimir Kanev (Bulgarian Helsinki Committee)

“When might limiting religious freedom be really necessary?”
Report focal group

Trafficking in Human Beings
“Protect all victims’ human rights”
Ms. Anna Korvinus (Netherlands Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings)

“Put trafficking on the political agendas”
Report focal group

Impunity in the OSCE Area
“The OSCE-states have shirked their responsibility”
Mr. Aage Borchgrevink (Norwegian Helsinki Committee)

“The outside world is morally complicit”
Mr. Andrew Cunningham (MSF Netherlands)

“The OSCE should effectuate the European Court of Human Rights’ decisions”
Report focal group


3 Full and Equal rights for Roma and Sinti within the OSCE Area
A spirit for a living body
Workshop report

4 Presentation booklet ‘Human Rights and Terrorism’
“We hope NGO’s will be involved by the Bulgarian OSCE Chairmanship as well”
Mr. Jan Herman van Roijen (Netherlands Helsinki Committee)

“We will take note of your recommendations”
Mr. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (OSCE Chairman-in-Office)

5 New Challenges and New Threats for the OSCE
“The OSCE states lack political will”
Ms. Ludmilla Alexeyeva (IHF)

“How might NGO’s address new threats to security?”
 Mr. Edwin Bakker (Netherlands Institute of International Relations “Clingendael”)

“We are desperately looking for help”
Ms. Tatsiana Pratsko (Belarusian Helsinki Committee)

“In the absence of change, the OSCE will lose all citizens’ support”
Siegfried Wöber (IKV/hCa Caucasus)

6 Statements
A Summary of Views and Concerns
Open letter to OSCE Chairman-in-Office Mr. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

Some recommendations on the OSCE Special Representative on Trafficking in Human Beings
Open letter to OSCE Chairman-in-Office Mr. B.R. Bot

Appeal from Belarusian human rights organizations
Open letter to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of OSCE-participating states

7 Evaluation
“An important step forward”
Mr. Jan ter Laak (Netherlands Helsinki Committee)

Appendices
 I The 11th OSCE Ministerial Council
II Programme NGO conference
III List of participants
IV Joint statement Anti Slavery International and IHF
V Trafficking in Human Beings in Hungary
VI IHF press release on Chechnya
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