News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE fosters youth co-operation in Central Asia
Publishing date: 2 November 2020
Twenty-four alumni of the OSCE-funded Central Asian Youth Network (CAYN) and other young people from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan took part in an online seminar on 29 and 30 October 2020 on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted security, the economy and education...
OSCE Mission in Kosovo promotes media and information literacy to youth
Publishing date: 1 November 2020
The OSCE Mission in Kosovo concluded its tenth and final online lecture on media and information literacy in a digital age for students of Serbian-language elementary and secondary schools in Kosovo on 30 October 2020. The lectures covered ten schools in the Pejë/Peć, Gjilan/Gnjilane, Prizren and Prishtinë/Priština regions and included 155 participants...
OSCE and UN Office of Counter-Terrorism discuss ways to responsibly use passenger data to prevent return of foreign terrorist fighters
Publishing date: 30 October 2020
The OSCE Transnational Threats Department’s Border Security and Management Unit and the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) organized the fourth OSCE-wide Seminar on Passenger Data Exchange on 29 and 30 October 2020, bringing together more than 250 passenger data experts from OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation...
OSCE launches the “Debating Perspectives 2030 Roadshow”, engaging young women and men in shaping a vision for a safer future
Publishing date: 30 October 2020
The OSCE and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) launched the “Debating Perspectives 2030 Roadshow” on 30 October 2020, a series of online and in-person events bringing together talented young women and men in shaping a vision for a safer future. The Roadshow, under which many events are planned across the OSCE region, held its first online discussion in Albania...
Economic consequences of COVID-19 on national minorities and importance of post-pandemic recovery policies focus of OSCE discussion
Publishing date: 30 October 2020
National minorities and other vulnerable groups are at risk of paying the highest costs of COVID-19’s economic consequences, said participants of an online discussion hosted by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) and the High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) on 30 October 2020...
Role of National Referral Mechanisms in combating human trafficking focus of roundtable discussion organized by OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 30 October 2020
Challenges, lessons learned and good practices in the use of National Referral Mechanisms to counter human trafficking were discussed at a roundtable discussion on 29 October 2020. The blended event was co-organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, jointly with the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the National Anti-trafficking Commission of Uzbekistan...
OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan trains Kazakh-speaking journalists on data journalism
Publishing date: 30 October 2020