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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Prevention of violence against journalists focus of OSCE seminar in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 27 June 2022
An OSCE-organized online seminar on international standards and national experiences in preventing violence against journalists and promoting their rights was held from 27 to 28 June 2022. Two international experts facilitated the meeting for representatives of structures involved in the
OSCE supports fourth Annual General Meeting of Balkan Asset Management Interagency Network
Publishing date: 24 June 2022
The fourth Annual General Meeting of the Balkan Asset Management Interagency Network (BAMIN) was held with the support of the OSCE between 22 and 24 June 2022 in Budva, Montenegro. The Annual General Meeting brought together 50 participants from 21 jurisdictions, as well as a representative from the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), to discuss the responsibilities, tasks and powers that constitute an effective asset management agency.
OSCE continues training Central Asian law enforcement experts to combat cybercrime through digital forensics
Publishing date: 24 June 2022
The second part of a two-week training programme on open-source digital forensics for law enforcement experts from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan took place from 20 to 24 June in Nur-Sultan. The course, organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department in close co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan and the Law Enforcement Academy under the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan, follows the first part, which took place in May.
OSCE supports training seminar on open data for government officials in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 24 June 2022
Improving national capacities of government institutions on open data and digitalization was the focus of a series of training seminars organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) in co-operation with the Anti-Corruption Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan (ACA) from 22 to 24 June 2022.
OSCE seminar in Turkmenistan addresses best practices in combating and preventing corruption
Publishing date: 23 June 2022
An OSCE-organized online seminar on best practices in preventing and countering bribery and corruption took place in Ashgabat from 23 to 24 June 2022. The purpose of the event was to present best practices of the OSCE participating States in developing measures to prevent and combat corruption
First-ever digitalized Macedonian-Albanian-Turkish-Serbian Fraza phrasebook launched by OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
Publishing date: 23 June 2022
Launch of first-ever digitalized quadrilingual Fraza phrasebook in Macedonian-Albanian-Turkish-Serbian in Skopje on 23 June 2022
Legacy of OSCE LIVE: Trained facilitators meet in Vienna to launch Community of Practice on Preventing Violent Extremism
Publishing date: 22 June 2022
To celebrate the multi-annual OSCE Leaders against Intolerance and Violent Extremism (LIVE) initiative, the OSCE Transnational Threats Department’s Action against Terrorism Unit (TNTD/ATU) hosted a 2-day in-person workshop for facilitators in Central Asia and South-Eastern Europe trained under the LIVE initiative in Vienna on 21-22 June.