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OSCE conducts specialized training course on effective responses to gender-based violence for Hungarian criminal justice practitioners
Publishing date: 10 May 2019
A four-day specialized training course on appropriate and effective responses to gender-based violence for criminal justice practitioners from Hungary was held from 6 to 10 May 2019, at the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) headquarters in Budapest, Hungary...
OSCE training workshop on intelligence-led policing, advantages to contemporary policing in Uzbekistan, held in Tashkent
Publishing date: 9 May 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Policing
The OSCE-recommended model of intelligence-led policing (ILP) and its advantages for contemporary policing to the Uzbek Police, training workshop organized by the OSCE Secretariat, in co-operation with the OSCE Office of the Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, was held on 10 May 2019 in Tashkent...
Ukrainian delegation visits OSCE Secretariat and Austria’s Interior Ministry as part of project on combating human trafficking and smuggling of migrants
Publishing date: 8 May 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Policing
Representatives of Ukraine’s Ministry of Social Policy, the country’s Office of the Prosecutor General, the police and the State Service for Labour Issues visited the OSCE Secretariat and the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior on 7 and 8 May 2019 as part of an OSCE capacity-building project that aims to combat human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants...
OSCE supports law enforcement officers from Afghanistan in advancing their knowledge and skills in combating illicit drugs
Publishing date: 8 April 2019
Ten Afghan law enforcement officers completed a ten-day training course on 5 April 2019, which focused on combating illicit drug trafficking and drug-related crimes. The course, held at the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation was organized by the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department...
OSCE and Institute of Police Education at Swedish Linnaeus University conduct train-the-trainer course on effective responses to gender-based violence for Bulgarian, Hungarian and Romanian officials
Publishing date: 1 April 2019
A four-day train-the-trainer course on appropriate and effective responses to gender-based violence for officials from Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania was held from 25 to 29 March 2019, at the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) Headquarters in Budapest, Hungary...
Holistic approaches to countering human trafficking for labour exploitation explored at OSCE regional workshop in Kyiv
Publishing date: 20 February 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Policing
Some 70 representatives of national institutions of Ukraine and eight other OSCE participating States- the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden and Turkey – completed a two-day workshop in Kyiv on 20 February 2019 focusing on holistic approaches to countering trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation...
OSCE in co-operation with UNODC holds regional workshop in Belgrade for high-level policymakers on preventing youth crime and violence
Publishing date: 17 December 2018
How to prevent crime and violence committed by young people by encouraging their engagement in developing life skills, sports and education was explored at a workshop for around 30 high-level policymakers from South-East Europe organized in Belgrade on 17 December 2018 by the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department in co-operation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the OSCE Mission to Serbia...