News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Afghan Border Police Officers complete OSCE-supported patrol leadership course
Publishing date: 10 August 2017
Seventeen Afghan border service officers completed a four-week OSCE patrolling and leadership training course on 9 August 2017 at the Gissar Training Centre, Tajikistan...
OSCE training course in Prishtinë/Priština focuses on detecting forged travel documents
Publishing date: 8 August 2017
Increasing operational awareness to detect forged documents and imposters is the aim of a three-day advanced training course for specialized police officers organized by the OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department with support from the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, which started in Prishtinë/Priština on 8 August 2017...
OSCE concludes roundtable discussion series on organic farming in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 8 August 2017
The last in a series of three OSCE-supported regional roundtable discussions on promoting green technologies with a focus on organic agriculture concluded on 8 August 2017 in Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan...
OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe organizes summer camp for young women
Publishing date: 8 August 2017
Fifty young women from all over Tajikistan came together in Bahoriston of Sughd region from 31 July to 4 August 2017 for a summer camp for young women. The camp was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe...
OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek supports training for law-enforcement bodies to ensure free, fair and transparent presidential election
Publishing date: 7 August 2017
More than 300 representatives of Kyrgyz law-enforcement bodies participated in nine training sessions from 17 July to 6 August 2017 in Bishkek, Jalal Abad, Osh, Batken and Cholpon Ata on how to ensure that the October 2017 presidential election is free, fair and transparent. The training was delivered by the Central Electoral Commission and the Civil Platform Kyrgyz Public Fund, with the support of the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek...
OSCE concludes training series for Kazakhstan’s border service officers on risk profiling
Publishing date: 4 August 2017
The last in a series of six OSCE-supported five-day training courses on risk profiling at border checkpoints to assist eighteen officers of the Border Service of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee in countering transnational threats concluded in Kostanai, Kazakhstan on 4 August 2017...
OSCE supports anti-trafficking training seminars for law enforcement officers and social workers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 4 August 2017
Some 100 law-enforcement officers, social workers and representatives of the local Akimat (regional administration) from the Atyrau, Aktobe, Mangystau and Western Kazakhstan regions as well as the city of Aktau took part in the last in a series of four OSCE-supported training seminars on anti-trafficking practices and procedures in Aktau, Kazakhstan, which concluded on 4 August 2017....