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On International Anti-Corruption Day OSCE hosts event on beneficial ownership and public procurement processes, key to preventing corrupt practices
Publishing date: 11 December 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Good governance
The importance of political support as a key step in introducing effective legal and policy frameworks to strengthen open data initiatives that lead to societies that are more transparent was discussed at an OSCE-organized webinar on International Anti-Corruption Day on 9 December 2020...
Political will and good governance critical in fighting corruption, says OSCE PA Special Representative, marking International Anti-Corruption Day
Publishing date: 9 December 2020
COPENHAGEN, 9 December 2020 – Effectively preventing and combatting corruption requires co-ordinated responses at both national and international levels guided by strong political will, said Irene Charalambides (Cyprus), the OSCE PA’s Special Representative on Fighting Corruption, at an event today marking International Anti-Corruption Day...
Central Asian and European youth learn about the OSCE through Model OSCE workshop
Publishing date: 12 October 2020
More than 20 young professionals and university students took part in the online Model OSCE simulation workshop from 6 to 9 October. Participants included young people from Central Asian countries: Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, as well as students from Austria, Croatia, Russia and Italy.
OSCE Annual Police Experts Meeting: Good relations between police and media can raise public confidence, help solve crimes, keep communities safe
Publishing date: 28 September 2020
Content type: Press release
What we do: Media freedom and development, Policing
VIENNA, 28 September 2020 – A healthy relationship between the police and the media can increase public confidence in law enforcement, help solve crimes and ultimately keep communities safe, said opening speakers of the 2020 OSCE Annual Police Experts Meeting (APEM), held in Vienna and online today...
Press Statement of Special Representative Grau after the regular Meeting of Trilateral Contact Group on 16 September 2020
Publishing date: 17 September 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
KYIV, 17 September 2020 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Heidi Grau, made the following statement to the press after the regular meetings of the TCG and its Working Groups held through video conferencing...
OSCE Presence in Albania holds activities in support of Master’s Programme in Criminology establishment at Law Faculty in Tirana
Publishing date: 2 June 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Economic activities, Education, Policing, Rule of law
On 28 and 29 May 2020 in Tirana, the OSCE Presence in Albania, in co-operation with the Law Faculty at the University of Tirana, organized a workshop with the academic staff of the new Master Programme in Criminology, aimed to improve capacities of professionals, academics and policy-makers to identify root causes of crime...
OSCE on domestic violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina in time of COVID-19
Publishing date: 27 April 2020
The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) called today for safety measures to be taken by governments in the country to protect women and children. The results of the OSCE Survey on Well Being and Safety of Women in BiH showed that almost one in two women survived some form of abuse including intimate partner violence since the age of 15. In addition, 64% of women in BIH can be considered as conflict-affected, while the indicated prevalence of current partner violence is higher among those women whose current partner fought in a conflict that those whose partner did not. The Mission finds this data worrying in light of the current situation.