August 20, 2020employees of NGO "Sana Sezim" took part in the discussion of the Victim Case Management System (VCMS) on Zoom platform. This meeting was organized by the staff of the SMICA project, in which the VCMS team from the NGO “Liberty shared”, representatives of non-governmental organizations from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan took part. The team demonstrated the VCMS so that the participants had an idea of what the system is and how it works. Further, current VCMS users such as “The Freedom Story” (Thailand), “HAART” (Kenya), “HELP for Domestic Workers” (Hong Kong), Willow International (Uganda) shared their experience of using the system in their work. The meeting ended with a Q&A session.

From 17 to 19 August 2020 a three-day training on visualization was organized, where new options for searching and checking information using Internet resources, new methods and algorithms for finding victims of traffickig in modern society, using resources and messengers and the Internet were considered. The issues of presenting information in modern society, for maximum coverage of society were also discussed. Artem Tarassov was the speaker.

August 14 2020within the framework of a joint project with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) "Protection of Children in Migration Processes", funded by the EU, another humanitarian aid in the form of hygiene products and personal protective equipment was organized to migrants from Tajikistan stranded on the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Migrants at the Zhybek Zholy checkpoint previously carried out labor activities in different cities of the Republic of Kazakhstan and found themselves in a vulnerable position in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, as they did not manage to leave the Republic of Kazakhstan before the borders were closed.

On August 12, 2020the organization NGO "Sana Sezim" took part in the 3rd Forum of Social Workers organized by the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of the Republic of Kazakhstan (MLSPP), which was held on ZOOM platform. The forum was attended by 500 participants, representatives of government agencies and university teachers, as well as foreign colleagues, speakers from Russia, Georgia, Bulgaria, Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and the United States.

On July 29, 2020 Forum of Social Workers was held on ZOOM platform, which was organized by the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of the Republic of Kazakhstan (MLSPP). The Forum was moderated by the Vice-Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Republic of Kazakhstan Mr. Aukenov Erlan Muratovich.

The total number of Forum participants was 300 people, these are deputies of Mazhilis and Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, members of the Interdepartmental Council, the Commissioner for Human Rights, heads of Medical and Social Institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan (MSI), heads of the Social Protection Departments of all regions of the Republic of Kazakhstan, representatives of civil society, etc.

July 24, 2020an online meeting of the working group of the Ministry of Labor of the Republic of Kazakhstan was held, the agenda was to make recommendations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Universal Periodic Review on Human Rights, UN Special Rapporteurs and 50 Roadmaps developed by NGOs to amend legislation on the labor market in the period of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kazakhstan; where the main issues were reducing unemployment, stabilizing the economy during a pandemic, improving working conditions for people with disabilities and retirees, for large families, improving social services and social protection of the population.

From 13 to 17 July 2020,employees of NGO "Sana Sezim" took part in an online training course: "Implementation of a service model for the protection of children's rights in migration processes in Kazakhstan."

On July 17, 2020employees of NGO "Sana Sezim" took part in a webinar organized with the support of USAID Asia CTIP on Safe Migration in Central Asia.

Speakers were Altyngul Turaliyeva, Country Coordinator - Kazakhstan, USAID Safe Migration in Central Asia Project, Ikram Hashimzhanov, Chairman of Association of Uzbeks in Kazakhstan, Gulnara Derbisheva, Founder of Union of Migrants in Kyrgyzstan.

Issues of ethnic groups in Kazakhstan and how these communities support migrants from neighboring countries such as Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, problems faced by labor migrants in Central Asia, such as unemployment, inability to return to their home countries and lack of social or legal protection were discussed.

On July 15, 2020at 3 pm, the second meeting was held to discuss the draft of the third periodic report on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The meeting was held at the platform of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan online, the draft of the third periodic report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights was discussed.