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The follow-up to the recommendations of election observation missions in the Western Balkans topped the agenda of an online conference organized by the OSCE Office Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 10 November 2020. The conference focused on the extent and modalities of the

The OSCE-supported international conference "Contemporary military conflicts and ways to prevent them" was held on 4 and 5 November 2020 in a blended format at the Academy of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Uzbekistan...

Seventeen women councillors from all across Albania successfully finalized the two-day final module of the OSCE Presence’s Women Municipal Excellence Programme (WoMEP) held in person with strict adherence to the COVID-19 safety rules and protocols from 6 to 7 November 2020. The module aimed at linking capacity-building and local development with gender equality. The programme combined on-the-job advice and direct training. This was the third module of the programme with two previous ones taking place in December 2019 and October 2020.

SARAJEVO, 6 November 2020 – The Agency for Gender Equality of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) of the BiH Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees, the OSCE Mission to BiH, the Office of the European Union in BiH and the UN Women BiH marked the 20th anniversary of the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security by organizing an online conference today.

Strengthening the capacity of government officials from Kazakhstan to counter terrorism financing was the aim of an online training course that took place from 3 to 6 November. The event was organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's Global Programme against Money Laundering (UNODC/GPML), the UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia and the Monitoring Team of the UN Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning ISIL (Da’esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups undertakings and entities.

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz) held a three-week capacity-building training course to help re-integrate returning labour migrants, which concluded on 6 November 2020. The event was organized in co-operation with the Agency for External Labour Migration under the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations of the Republic of Uzbekistan (the Agency), and took place at Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT).

On 6 November 2020, journalists, representatives of the Bar Association and the Supreme Court of Turkmenistan, as well as representatives of the Institute of State, Law and Democracy successfully completed an OSCE-organized advanced online train-the-trainer course on the rights and duties of journalists.