Secretariat - Action against Terrorism Unit

The Action against Terrorism Unit co-ordinates assistance to OSCE participating States to strengthen travel document security. (ICAO)
The Action against Terrorism Unit co-ordinates assistance to OSCE participating States to strengthen travel document security. (ICAO)
Established in 2002, the OSCE Action against Terrorism Unit is the Organization's focal point for co-ordinating and facilitating OSCE initiatives and capacity-building programmes in combating terrorism.
R-l: Yuri Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; Thomas Wuchte, Head on OSCE Anti-Terrorism Issues; and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier, during a conference on improving the control of explosive substances, Vienna, 10 May 2012.

OSCE, UNODC hold joint conference on the terrorist use of explosives

VIENNA, 10 May 2012 – A two-day conference aimed at improving the control of explosive substances in order to hinder terrorists’ access to them, organized by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) started in Vienna today...
Maj Britt Theorin, Chairperson of a Sweden-based NGO "Operation 1325" (r) and keynote speaker Detective Inspector Khizra Dhindsa representing the Association of Chief Police Officers of England and Wales (l) speaks at an OSCE-organized expert meeting with a focus on ways of empowering women in countering violent extremism and radicalization that leads to terrorism, Vienna, 12 March 2012.

OSCE highlights need to involve women in efforts to counter violent extremism, terrorist radicalization

VIENNA, 12 MARCH 2012 – Ways of empowering women in countering violent extremism and radicalization that leads to terrorism is the focus of a two-day expert meeting organized by the OSCE today in Vienna...

OSCE supports discussion on fight against terrorism financing

The OSCE, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime the Romanian Foreign Ministry have organized on 13 and 14 December 2011 a workshop in Bucharest on preventing and fighting terrorism financing...
Participants during a meeting on the dynamics behind the terrorist radicalization of women, organized by the OSCE Secretariat and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Vienna, 12 December 2011

OSCE organizes expert meeting on preventing the terrorist radicalization of women

VIENNA, 12 December 2011 – The dynamics behind the terrorist radicalization of women and ways to prevent it from happening was the focus of a meeting organized by the OSCE today for experts from academia, civil society, the media and OSCE participating States...
A training participant during an exercise on the detection of forged travel documents, Bishkek, 3 November 2011.

OSCE Centre in Bishkek trains border officials on travel document security

NOVOPOKROVKA, Kyrgyzstan, 11 November 2011 - An OSCE-sponsored training course on travel document security was completed in the Novopokrovka Border Troops Training Centre near Bishkek today...
L-r: The OSCE Office in Baku’s Head of the Politico-Military Unit John MacGregor and Senior Police Expert Marko Kubny, at a national expert conference on tackling cybercrime, Baku, 6 October 2011.

Tackling cybercrime focus of OSCE conference in Baku

BAKU, 6 October 2011 – A two-day OSCE-supported conference on tackling cybercrime opened in Baku today...
Alvydas Šakočius, Adviser to the OSCE Centre in Bishkek's Community Security Initiative, at a workshop on how community policing can help counter violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism, Bishkek, 5 October 2011.

OSCE contributes to Kyrgyzstan’s efforts in preventing extremism and radicalization through community policing

BISHKEK, 4 October 2011 – A two-day workshop on how community policing can help counter violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism, organized by the OSCE Secretariat and the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, in co-operation with Kyrgyzstan’s Interior Ministry, started today in Bishkek...

Early warning, regional mechanisms key to countering terrorist threat, OSCE anti-terrorism head tells UN committee

UNITED NATIONS, 28 September 2011 – Regional organizations have a critical role in putting global strategies to fight terrorism into practice, said Raphael Perl, the Head on Anti-Terrorism Issues at the OSCE Secretariat, at a special meeting of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee today...
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