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OSCE Special Representative calls for better balance between border control and human rights protection to tackle human trafficking

26 March 2012
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, called for anti-trafficking efforts at borders to prioritize human rights protection at a conference on “The Politics & Policy of Border Security” in Berlin on 23 March 2012...

OSCE Centre trains Kazakhstani border guards

5 March 2012
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 5 March 2012 - A three-day OSCE-organized workshop on border management for Kazakhstani border service staff began today in Almaty... ()

OSCE Project Co-ordinator helps strengthen risk analysis system of Ukraine’s State Border Service

31 January 2012
KYIV, 31 January 2012 – The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) today handed over IT equipment for 23 risk and criminal analysis units of the Ukraine's State Border Guard Service... ()

OSCE holds a workshop for customs and licensing authorities with Mediterranean Partners on military and dual-use goods

24 January 2012
A regional workshop organized by the OSCE to help combat the trafficking of strategic dual-use commodities and conventional weapons, including small arms and light weapons, started in Valletta, Malta on 24 January 2012...

New OSCE department for transnational threats established

12 January 2012
With the beginning of 2012, a new department has been established that will improve the OSCE’s work on combating transnational threats (TNT), OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier announced on 10 January 2012...

OSCE supports training for Tajik border guard services on refugees and asylum issues

9 December 2011
The OSCE and the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) held an intensive train–the-trainers course for border guard officers on the rights of refugees and asylum seekers as well as reception practices at border entry points from 21 to 30 November 2011...

EUBAM head addresses OSCE Permanent Council

1 December 2011
The Head of the EU Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM), Udo Burkholder, addressed the OSCE Permanent Council on 1 December 2011. He outlined the activities and future priority areas of EUBAM, whose mandate was recently extended for the third time into 2015...

OSCE supports border management workshop for border guards and customs officers in Kazakhstan

29 November 2011
A two-and-a-half day workshop for border service and customs officials began in Merke, on Kazakhstan's southern border with Kyrgyzstan, on 28 November 2011. The OSCE Centre in Astana organized the seminar in co-operation with the EU/UNDP Border Management Programme for Central Asia, the International Organization for Migration and the border services and customs agencies of Kazakhstan...

OSCE Office helps Afghan and Tajik border guard learn from Lithuanian counterparts

15 November 2011
Training for six Tajik and five Afghan border guard officials started on 14 November at the Border Guard School Medininkai in Lithuania...

OSCE Office in Tajikistan trains Afghan Border Police in tactical patrolling and surveillance

11 November 2011
DUSHANBE, 11 November 2011 – Officers from the Afghan Border Police successfully completed an eight-week Patrol Leadership Course at the OSCE Office in Tajikistan today...
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