26th Conference of the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons

26^th Conference of the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons

The Rise of Forced Criminality: Addressing a Security Blind Spot

20-21 April 2026

Hofburg, Vienna, Austria and via Zoom

Dear Sir/Madam,

We look forward to your participation at the 26^th Conference of the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons. This year’s conference will provide a dedicated forum to address the fastest growing and least understood dimension of human trafficking - trafficking for exploitation in criminal activities, commonly referred to as forced criminality. Discussions will bring renewed attention to the scope of the issue, emerging trends, including the role of digital technologies and financial footprints, as well as the increasingly complex modus operandi employed by criminal networks to target their victims. It will also analyse the response mechanisms, promising practices, policy, and practical tools to combat this form of trafficking.

The Conference brings together representatives of the 57 OSCE participating States and 11 Partners for Co-operation, alongside international organizations, civil society, experts with lived experience, the private sector, academia, and the media.

The 26^th Conference of the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons will be conducted in a blended format at the OSCE premises in the Hofburg Congress Center (5^th floor), Heldenplatz, 1010 Vienna, Austria and via Zoom.

Due to budgetary constraints affecting the OSCE’s premises at the Hofburg, in-person participation will be limited to:

• Participating States – 1+1+1 (in total three representatives, including National Anti-Trafficking Co-ordinators and Rapporteurs and other government representatives; nominations will be communicated by delegations of the OSCE pS in Vienna);
• Partners for Co-operation – 1+0;
• OSCE Executive Structures – 1+0;
• Alliance Expert Co-ordination Team (AECT) – 1+0;
• Invited non-governmental organizations, civil society, private sector and academia – 1+0.

All other participants are invited to join the conference via Zoom. The conference link will be sent to the registered participants after the registration deadline.

Please note that only registered and approved participants will be granted access to the conference sessions.

In-person participants are required to register online before the deadline of 23 March 2026, CoB.

Online participants are requested to register by 13 April 2026, CoB. Any registration requests submitted after the deadline will not be accepted.