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Empowering the Next Generation: OSCE Trains Over 3,000 Youth in Financial Literacy across Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 2 May 2025
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Economic activities, Education
For several years, the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek (POiB) has been leading a sustained effort to promote financial literacy among youth in Kyrgyzstan. Through comprehensive training programmes held annually across the country, the POiB helps young people build the skills they need to make
Kazakhstan, OSCE and UN host Cross-Regional Dialogue on the Prosecution, Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Returnees from Conflict Zones
Publishing date: 1 May 2025
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
On 30 April, over 50 representatives from Central Asia, South-East Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa gathered in Astana to share good practices and exchange experience related to prosecution, rehabilitation and reintegration (PRR) of returnees from conflict zones. The meeting was co-organized by the Ministry of Culture and Information of Kazakhstan, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s (OSCE) Programme Office in Astana, the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), and the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA).
OSCE Mission hosts court simulation on marital rape in Montenegro
Publishing date: 30 April 2025
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro, in co-operation with the Supreme Court of Montenegro and the Judicial Training Centre, hosted a three-day court simulation training aimed at strengthening institutional responses to violence against women and girls, with a particular focus on marital rape.
OSCE and EU support Central Asian states to safeguard non-profit organizations from abuse by terrorists
Publishing date: 30 April 2025
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
Ensuring a proportionate approach to combating the instrumentalization of non-profit organizations (NPOs) by terrorists in Central Asia was the focus of a workshop organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department and the EU Global Facility on Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) in Vienna from 28 to 30 April.
Acting Head of OSCE Mission Cornelia Taylor visits Mitrovicë/Mitrovica region to engage with civil society and media
Publishing date: 24 April 2025
Today, the Acting Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Cornelia Taylor, visited Mitrovicë/Mitrovica region to engage with local organizations supporting people with disabilities and survivors of domestic violence, and to meet with women editors and journalists. The visit began at “Podrži Me”, an
OSCE Presence enhances prison authorities’ capacities on prisoners’ right to vote ahead of parliamentary elections in Albania
Publishing date: 24 April 2025
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
On 24 April 2025, in the lead-up to the parliamentary elections due on 11 May, the OSCE Presence in Albania, in co-operation with the General Directorate of Prisons, organized a comprehensive training seminar for about 45 senior prison staff on prisoners’ right to vote. The purpose of this training was to support prison authorities to ensure the protection and facilitation of prisoners’ voting rights, in line with national laws and international standards.
Protecting media freedom is crucial to our democracies, says OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media in first report to OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 10 April 2025
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development
VIENNA, 10 April 2025 — Protecting media freedom is crucial to our democracies and comprehensive security: this was a core message from the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM), Jan Braathu, during his first report to the OSCE Permanent Council today.