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OSCE trains Tajik border and customs officers on combating transborder organized crime
Publishing date: 21 June 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management
DUSHANBE, 21 June 2013 – Twenty-five officers from the Tajik border troops and national customs service completed today a two-week training course on combating transborder organized crime organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...
OSCE trains civil society activists on data journalism
Publishing date: 20 June 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Media freedom and development
On 20 June 2013, civil society activists completed a four-day training course on data journal-ism and information activism in Sarajevo...
OSCE supports Afghan-Central Asia co-operation to fight drugs trade
Publishing date: 20 June 2013
Five senior Afghan law enforcement officials attended a two-day study visit on fighting drugs trafficking from 20 to 21 June 2013 in Tashkent. The visit was organized by the OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department in co-operation with the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan...
OSCE Mission to Serbia promotes application of modern tools of criminal procedure
Publishing date: 20 June 2013
BELGRADE, 20 June 2013 – An OSCE-facilitated regional conference on the simplified forms of criminal procedure, which started today in Belgrade brought together some 130 participants...
OSCE Secretary General discusses security challenges with Foreign Minister Bildt
Publishing date: 20 June 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
The OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt on 20 June 2013 in Vienna to discuss current security issues in the OSCE region.
Illegal organ transplants and commercial child adoption focus of anti-trafficking training co-organized by OSCE in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 20 June 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
ALMATY, 20 June 2013- A two-day training seminar for police officers on best practices in combating the trafficking in human beings began today in Almaty. Participants discussed the detection and exposure of illegal organ transplants, child adoption for commercial purposes, and human trafficking for labour and sexual exploitation...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine supports exchange of experience on human rights protection through constitutional justice
Publishing date: 20 June 2013
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Rule of law
YALTA, Ukraine, 20 June 2013- Ways of protecting the rights of individuals through constitutional justice are the focus of an international conference that started in Yalta in the south of the country, today with the support of OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU)...