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Improving international co-operation, exchanging experiences and best practices, and adopting a collaborative approach are essential for effectively addressing online child sexual abuse and exploitation. This was one of the key conclusions of the workshop at the “Cryptocurrency and Online Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation”, organized by the Southeast Europe Police Chiefs Association (SEPCA) at the Western Balkans Cyber Capacity Centre (WB3C), from 11 to 13 September in Podgorica.

As part of a comprehensive initiative to bolster counter-terrorism efforts in Montenegro, the OSCE concluded a three-day training-of-trainers course on Analysis in Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) on 12 September 2024 in Vienna, Austria.

Representatives of state institutions and civil society organizations participated in an OSCE-organized workshop on gender-based violence (GBV) that took place on 12 and 13 September in Ashgabat. The OSCE Centre in Ashgabat organized the two-day event to discuss with national stakeholders the

On 12-13 September 2024, the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe supported the Association of Women’s Councils in the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to organize a roundtable discussion in Romit, near Dushanbe.

On 12-13 September 2024, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz) in co-operation with the National Human Rights Centre (NHRC), conducted a roundtable on “Strengthening the Role of Women in Peace and Security Issues” in Termez (Surkhandarya region). The aim of the event was to support the

The factors that make people belonging to minorities more vulnerable to human trafficking and ensuring respect for the rights of victims were discussed at the launch of a new joint publication by the OSCE’s Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (CTHB) and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 11 September 2024.

Central Asia's high mountains are critical to the well-being of communities throughout the region and beyond. At the same time, the area is already facing significant climate-related security risks with impacts on the livelihoods of rural mountain and downstream communities that are dependent on agriculture, pastures, and forests. As these risks are shared across the region, they also provide entry points for co-operation to improve livelihoods, stability and resilience in the context of a changing climate.