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March 2004 conference in St. Petersburg focusing on creating peace through human rights.

Representatives of the Church of Scientology International’s Human Rights Department regularly attend conferences organized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the European Union and the Council of Europe.

In July 2003, representatives from the Church’s human rights office made specific recommendations for promoting religious tolerance to a major OSCE conference attended by 128 government delegates from 41 countries, various NGOs and senior United Nations and Council of Europe officials.

Conference on human trafficking organized by the Church’s Human Rights Department, Los Angeles.

The conference adopted a number of the Church’s recommendations in its final report, which is available on the OSCE’s website.

The Church is also very active in encouraging human rights education in Russia and other former Soviet states. Church representatives have organized human rights conferences and roundtables from St. Petersburg to Moscow to Khabarovsk in Siberia.

One of the many human rights roundtables that the Church has organized in Moscow, Russia.

Speakers have included representatives from the Russian Ombudsman’s Office, religious leaders from a wide range of faiths, city and state government leaders and human rights officials.

Attendees have particularly welcomed the Church’s human rights publications and have taken copies for distribution in their own work and for placement in local libraries and universities.

The Church has also begun to tackle the problem of human trafficking or “modern day slavery,” a type of crime that now affects an estimated 27 million people, mostly women and children worldwide.

Human rights conference in Moscow, March 2004.

Believing that increased understanding of the scope of the problem will compel effective action, the Church’s Human Rights Department, working with Youth for Human Rights International and the Church’s magazine, Freedom, has been instrumental in organizing seminars and roundtables on human trafficking, including one in Los Angeles in January 2004 attended by a representative of the U.S. Department of Justice.