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Leigh Turner

Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna

Part of UK in Ukraine

11th January 2012

Helping prevent child exploitation in Ukraine

People sometimes wonder what an embassy does; and what international co-operation really means.  By way of an interesting concrete example, the British Embassy organised a visit late last year by experts from the UK’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre to meet their Ukrainian counterparts.  The CEOP experts also met Ukrainian and international NGOs tackling the exploitation of children, including UNICEF, ECPAT, La Strada, the International Organisation for Migration and Odesa-based Faith Hope and Love.  You can read a full account of the event on the Embassy website here (in Ukrainian) or here (in English).

CEOP round table

2 comments on “Helping prevent child exploitation in Ukraine”

  1. Dear mr. Turner! We are NGO European Choice this year becomes beneficiary of EU-founded project “Children and Woman rights – communication component”. From January 2012 we will continue to run http://www.vsirivni.org portal – one of the best known web-source on children and woman rights. We are lloking to support your ideas and activity – sharing the information and maybe we could discuss some joint activity this year. Aware – that we are your friends and followers. We are kindly ask you for interview or post some your new articles or posts in our website. Have a great 2012! Kyryll

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About Leigh Turner

I hope you find this blog interesting and, where appropriate, entertaining. My role in Vienna covers the relationship between Austria and the UK as well as the diverse work of…

I hope you find this blog interesting and, where appropriate, entertaining. My role in Vienna covers the relationship between Austria and the UK as well as the diverse work of the UN and other organisations; stories here will reflect that.

About me: I arrived in Vienna in August 2016 for my second posting in this wonderful city, having first served here in the mid-1980s. My previous job was as HM Consul-General and Director-General for Trade and Investment for Turkey, Central Asia and South Caucasus based in Istanbul.

Further back: I grew up in Nigeria, Exeter, Lesotho, Swaziland and Manchester before attending Cambridge University 1976-79. I worked in several government departments before joining the Foreign Office in 1983.

Keen to go to Africa and South America, I’ve had postings in Vienna (twice), Moscow, Bonn, Berlin, Kyiv and Istanbul, plus jobs in London ranging from the EU Budget to the British Overseas Territories.

2002-6 I was lucky enough to spend four years in Berlin running the house, looking after the children (born 1992 and 1994) and doing some writing and journalism.

To return to Vienna as ambassador is a privilege and a pleasure. I hope this blog reflects that.

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