News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Presence, Tirana University establish research centre on transitional justice in Albania
Publishing date: 27 November 2020
The OSCE Presence in Albania and the University of Tirana launched the Centre for Justice and Transformation – a multi-disciplinary research centre in the field of transitional justice – at an online event on 26 November 2020...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports civil society organizations in using digital platforms for everyday work
Publishing date: 27 November 2020
To strengthen capacities of civil society organization (CSOs) in using digital platforms, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized two online training courses on 16 and 17 November and from 25 to 27 November 2020.
OSCE seminar addresses protection of oil and gas infrastructure from hazards in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 27 November 2020
Management approaches and tools aimed at protecting oil and gas infrastructure from natural or human-made hazards was the topic of an OSCE-organized online seminar that took place on 26 and 27 November 2020.
OSCE trains Tajik civil servants on preventing corruption risks in health sector and state procurement process during COVID-19 crisis
Publishing date: 27 November 2020
The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe organized three online training courses on how to prevent corruption risks during the COVID-19 pandemic. The training courses took place online from 12 to 27 November with a special emphasis on risks in the health sector and in the state procurement process. Some 15 participants from Tajik government structures and civil society participated...
Digitalization of justice in focus of OSCE-supported Defence Lawyers Forum in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 27 November 2020
The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan, in co-operation with the National Bar Association and NGO Legal Policy Research Centre, organized the fifth National Forum of Defence Lawyers on 27 November 2020...
Concluding conference of OSCE’s Intelligence-led Policing project 2017-2020 held
Publishing date: 26 November 2020
The Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department (SPMU) presented the achievements and lessons learned from the four-year extra budgetary project on Intelligence-led Policing (ILP) during the project’s concluding conference on 26 November 2020...
Book launch and panel discussion organized by Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE highlights conciliation as flexible method for settling disputes
Publishing date: 26 November 2020
Conciliation as a flexible method for the peaceful settlement of disputes was the focus of a webinar held on 13 November 2020, and the launch of the book, Flexibility in International Dispute Settlement – Conciliation Revisited, which was edited by Christian Tomuschat (former President of the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE and Member of the Court’s current Bureau) and Marcelo Kohen (Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva)...