News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE fosters co-operation among Baltic States, Moldova and Ukraine in combating abuse of new technologies for human trafficking, sexual exploitation
Publishing date: 6 August 2019
Senior prosecutors and law enforcement representatives specialized in anti-human trafficking and cybercrimes from Belarus, Estonia, France, Italy, Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States completed a two-day workshop on 31 July 2019 in Minsk on effective investigative techniques to combat human trafficking for sexual exploitation that is facilitated by new technologies...
Diversity management: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities supports development of training tool for the civil service in Ukraine
Publishing date: 5 August 2019
The office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities announced on 5 August 2019 that it is supporting diversity training courses for civil servants in Ukraine over the coming years, as part of its commitment to assist OSCE states working to manage diversity. Integration is a process that
OSCE continues to train border guards on document security in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 2 August 2019
A five-day second stage of the OSCE-supported train-the-trainer course on detecting forged travel documents and identification techniques for 20 border service officers concluded in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 2 August 2019...
OSCE continues training seminars on enhancing communication between courts and media in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 2 August 2019
An OSCE-supported training seminar on enhancing dialogue and co-operation between the courts and media concluded on 2 August 2019 in Shchuchinsk, Kazakhstan. Forty judges-co-ordinators, press secretaries, journalists and bloggers from the cities of Kostanay and Nur-Sultan and the Akmola, Karaganda, Kostanay, North Kazakhstan, Pavlodar regions took part in the event...
OSCE supports training seminar on anti-money laundering and combating financing of terrorism in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 2 August 2019
The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan supported a two-day seminar on anti- money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) on 1 and 2 August 2019 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe organizes conference to mark World Day against Trafficking in Human Beings
Publishing date: 1 August 2019
Representatives of Tajikistan’s government, international organizations and civil society working to combat human trafficking came together for a conference organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe on 25 July 2019 to mark the World Day against Trafficking in Human Beings...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan marks World Day against Human Trafficking
Publishing date: 31 July 2019
More than 70 representatives of government officials, academia, NGOs and the media as well as members of the diplomatic community gathered in Tashkent to mark the World Day against Trafficking in Persons with a presentation of the ‘Guiding Principles on Human Rights in the Return of Trafficked Persons’, a publication by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)recently translated into Uzbek...