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OSCE gathers youth, influencers and governmental practitioners in Tajikistan to discuss awareness raising on youth crime prevention
Publishing date: 24 April 2024
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Youth
On 23 and 24 April, the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) and the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA), in co-operation with the Programme Office in Dushanbe, held multi-stakeholder workshops with young people, influencers and governmental practitioners to discuss how to use social media as a platform to raise the awareness and resilience of young people on involvement in crime.
Advancing youth crime prevention: OSCE organizes study visit to Germany for law enforcement representatives from Albania and Tajikistan
Publishing date: 24 January 2024
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, Transnational Threats Department
What we do: Youth
Children and youth are particularly vulnerable to getting drawn into criminal and corrupt activities. Practitioners and institutions can play a crucial role in the early identification and prevention of delinquent behavior among young people. To foster their knowledge and expertise on this topic,
OSCE strengthens young people’s resilience to organized crime and corruption in South-Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 18 December 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Good governance, Policing, Youth
Strengthening youth resilience to organized crime and corruption in South-Eastern Europe was the aim of a civil society organizations’ regional grants programme, carried out by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities and the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime.
1.5 million young people in Kyrgyzstan reached with OSCE campaign on youth crime prevention and integrity
Publishing date: 4 October 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Youth
The OSCE awareness campaign on youth crime prevention and integrity, launched in June 2023, achieved the milestone of reaching one and a half million young people across Kyrgyzstan on 29 September 2023.
Young women and men from Central Asia experience diplomacy at Model OSCE in Istanbul
Publishing date: 28 September 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Youth
From 25 to 29 September 2023, 25 young professionals from Central Asia had the chance to learn about the OSCE and experience diplomatic negotiations first-hand as they simulated meetings of the OSCE Permanent Council as part of the 2023 Model OSCE event.
OSCE supports the development of the five-year youth strategy for the Canton of Sarajevo
Publishing date: 28 September 2023
Content type: News
What we do: Youth
The OSCE Secretariat Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) and Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA), in co-operation with the Ministry of Science, Higher Education and Youth of the Canton of Sarajevo and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, held a multi-stakeholder event on 27 and 28 September in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to support the development of the 2024-2028 Youth Strategy.
Empowering youth to foster positive change: OSCE launches “Crime Prevention and Lawful Behaviour” training course in schools of Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 24 August 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Education, Good governance, Youth
The OSCE, in co-operation with the OSCE Academy in Bishkek and the Ministry of Education and Science of Kyrgyzstan, held a training course from 21 to 25 August 2023 in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan to help teachers use an OSCE-developed curriculum on crime prevention and lawful behaviour for students in grades 5 to 11.