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Innovative responses to transnational threats in focus at the 15th Annual Meeting of OSCE Border Security and Management National Focal Points Network
Publishing date: 23 September 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Border management
Current transnational threats and challenges for border agencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and innovative responses were the focus of the 15th Annual Meeting of the OSCE Border Security and Management National Focal Points Network held on 21 and 22 September 2021.
30 years after Bonn: We must continue to invest in dialogue, conflict prevention and fighting transnational threats
Publishing date: 5 July 2021
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
VIENNA, 5 July 2021 – Thirty years on from the 1990 Bonn Document, the OSCE hosted a conference reviewing how to continue contributing to European peace, security and prosperity through a market-based economy and environmental protection...
OSCE commits to new gender equality targets at Generation Equality Forum in Paris
Publishing date: 1 July 2021
Content type: Press release
What we do: Gender equality
PARIS, 1 July 2021 – The OSCE has pledged to improve gender equality by taking action on Gender Based Violence, Economic Justice and Rights and Technology & Innovation.
Sub-Regional arms control Article IV of Dayton Peace Agreement, essential to peace and stability in the region, marks 25th anniversary
Publishing date: 14 June 2021
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector
VIENNA, 14 June 2021- Today marks the 25th anniversary of the signing of Article IV of the Dayton Peace Agreement, a sub-regional arms control arrangement, established to reduce the number of weapons to the level agreed to between Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia...
Promoting women’s economic empowerment when rebuilding after the COVID-19 pandemic essential, say participants at OSCE meeting
Publishing date: 10 June 2021
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities, Gender equality
VIENNA/STOCKHOLM, 10 June 2021 – Women have disproportionately suffered socio-economic consequences during the COVID-19 pandemic. At today’s 2nd Preparatory meeting of the OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum (EEF) participants stressed the need for policies that will ensure a more level playing field for women, now that a return to ‘normalcy’ seems within reach. Promoting equal opportunities for women is a key factor for securing prosperity, stability and security...
Second online Training on the Identification of Imposters at Border Crossing Points
Publishing date: 21 May 2021
Learning how to identify and stop imposters at a border crossing was the focus of an online OSCE training course held on 19 and 20 May 2021. Over 200 participants from 29 OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation took part in the course. They comprised members of the OSCE Border Security and Management National Focal Points (NFP) Network and selected representatives of border and customs services.
Joint OSCE/Frontex meeting explores ways to strengthen document checks at borders in South-Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 5 May 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Border management
Exploring ways to further strengthen capabilities for document checks at border controls in South-Eastern Europe was the focus of an online meeting held on 29 April 2021 as a follow-up to the 2019 Co-ordination Conference on Preventing Document Fraud — co-operation in South Eastern Europe.
OSCE supports 6th Meeting of Permanent Conference of Organized Crime Prosecutors
Publishing date: 29 April 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Policing
Over 30 participants took part in the sixth meeting of the Permanent Conference of Organized Crime Prosecutors (PCOCP) organized online by the OSCE Secretariat in collaboration with the OSCE Mission to Serbia, on 27 April 2021.
OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid concludes visit to Poland
Publishing date: 20 April 2021
Content type: Press release
WARSAW, 20 April 2021 — OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid concluded a one-day visit to Poland for discussions with the Polish President, Andrzej Duda, Foreign Minister, Zbigniew Rau, Deputy Foreign Minister, Marcin Przydacz, and the Polish delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
We must unite across countries and organizations to counter terrorism, say participants at opening of OSCE-wide Counter-Terrorism Conference
Publishing date: 20 April 2021
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
VIENNA, 20 April 2021 — We must unite across countries and organizations to comprehensively prevent and counter violent extremism and radicalization that leads to terrorism (VERLT), said participants today during the opening of the OSCE-wide Counter-Terrorism Conference online from 20 to 21 April.