News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports efforts to improve connectivity along the Euro-Asian transport routes at an event in Tbilisi
Publishing date: 13 December 2019
A two-day expert workshop on “Strengthening Security and Inter-operability along Euro-Asian Inland Transport Corridors” took place in Tbilisi on 12 and 13 December 2019. The event was organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) jointly with the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and in partnership with the Transport and Logistics Development Policy Department of the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia.
OSCE and Aarhus Centre Sarajevo conclude Environmental Legal Clinics Programme in Sarajevo
Publishing date: 13 December 2019
SARAJEVO, 13 December 2019 –The Environmental Legal Clinics Programme, organized by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Aarhus Centre Sarajevo, concluded today in Sarajevo. Twenty students from the universities of Sarajevo and Istočno Sarajevo were awarded certificates for their participation...
Proactive approach to targeting transnational organized crime focus of OSCE regional workshop in Kyiv
Publishing date: 13 December 2019
An OSCE regional training workshop dedicated to proactive and intelligence-led approaches to targeting transnational organized crime groups took place on 12 and 13 December 2019 in Kyiv, Ukraine...
Protecting civil rights more important than ever, OSCE human rights head and Polish Ombudsman say
Publishing date: 13 December 2019
To discuss means of putting democracies across the OSCE region back on track as intolerance increases and pressure grows on the independence of the judiciary in many places, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) together with the Office of the Polish Ombudsman are
OSCE Programme Office continues to support live exercise to counter drug-related money laundering in Almaty
Publishing date: 13 December 2019
An OSCE-organized week-long simulation exercise on countering drug-related money laundering concluded on 13 December 2019 in Almaty. It took place at the Central Asian Regional Information and Co-ordination Centre for Combating Illicit Trafficking of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and their Precursors (CARICC).
Regional workshop in Malta explores how to combat human trafficking and migrant smuggling through a multi-disciplinary approach and multi-level co-operation
Publishing date: 12 December 2019
How to combat human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants through a multi-disciplinary approach and multi-level co-operation was the focus of a regional workshop for government and law enforcement officials held in Valletta on 9 and 10 December 2019...
Establishment of special departments for fighting corruption at the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina level, focus of OSCE supported meeting
Publishing date: 12 December 2019
The establishment of special departments for fighting corruption within the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) Supreme Court and Prosecutor’s Office was the focus of a peer-to-peer meeting of entity and cantonal level judges, prosecutors, police and representatives of the FBiH Government, held on 12 December 2019 in Sarajevo...