News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE participating States review commitments on disaster risk reduction at 2025 Economic and Environmental Dimension Implementation Meeting
Publishing date: 29 October 2025
VIENNA, 29 October 2025 – The 2025 Economic and Environmental Dimension Implementation Meeting (EEDIM) concluded today in Vienna, providing a platform to review progress in the implementation of OSCE commitments in the field of disaster risk reduction.
Handwriting Under the Microscope: OSCE Training Enhances Ukrainian Forensic Document Analysis
Publishing date: 23 October 2025
The OSCE Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the State Forensic Science Bureau of Latvia (SFSB), delivered a specialized training on forensic handwriting examination for forensic document experts from the Main Forensic Center of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (SBGS) from 21 to 23 October in Riga.
OSCE supports mentoring programme to advance women’s leadership in Ukraine’s National Police
Publishing date: 21 October 2025
On 15 and16 October, the OSCE Secretariat’s Gender Issues Programme organized a two-day training session for 21 mentors of the first Mentoring programme for women police officers within the National Police of Ukraine.
OSCE helps women leaders in Ukraine’s State Emergency Service to build resilience through final leadership workshop
Publishing date: 21 October 2025
On 13 and14 October 2025, 25 women leaders from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SESU) took part in the final module of the leadership workshop ‘’Leading Smarter- Not Harder’’ organized by the OSCE Gender Issues Programme through the WIN Project.
Experts and policymakers from Moldova and Ukraine strengthen co-operation in cyber/ICT security at OSCE workshop
Publishing date: 20 October 2025
Cybersecurity experts and policymakers from Moldova and Ukraine worked to strengthen co-operation and implementation of cyber/ICT security confidence-building measures at a workshop organized by the OSCE in Chisinau on 16 and 17 October. The aim was to enhance national preparedness, bolster crisis management and co-ordination mechanisms, as well as promote regional co-operation on cybersecurity.
Statement by the OSCE Troika to condemn Russia’s repeated and deliberate attacks on Ukraine’s civilian energy infrastructure
Publishing date: 13 October 2025
HELSINKI/VALLETTA/BERN, 13 October 2025- Today, the OSCE Troika – Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE and Foreign Minister of Finland Elina Valtonen, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Tourism of Malta Ian Borg, and Federal Councillor and Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland Ignazio Cassis – made the following statement:
Methodology of ODIHR’s Ukraine Monitoring Initiative in focus at Warsaw conference
Publishing date: 10 October 2025
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has conducted over 600 interviews to document alleged violations of human rights and humanitarian law through its Ukraine Monitoring Initiative (UMI).