News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Moldova trains police in Moldova’s north and south to investigate hate crimes
Publishing date: 20 June 2017
Between 13 and 16 June 2017, the OSCE Mission to Moldova organized two training events in the north and south of Moldova, during which a total of 37 police officers learnt how to effectively identify and investigate bias-motivated crimes, otherwise known as hate crimes...
Austrian OSCE Chairmanship organizes visit for participating States delegations to AUTINT-run SMM predeployment training in Götzendorf, Lower Austria
Publishing date: 19 June 2017
Vienna, 19 June 2017- High level representatives of more than 20 delegations of OSCE participating States and senior OSCE officials visited on 9 June 2017 the site of the predeployment training for the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine conducted by the Austrian Armed Forces International Centre (AUTINT) in Götzendorf, Lower Austria. The visit was organized by the Austrian OSCE Chairmanship.
OSCE-supported training on state and municipal service law launched in Bishkek
Publishing date: 19 June 2017
A series of training sessions for state and municipal civil servants on the application of a newly adopted law “On state civil service and municipal service” started on 19 June 2017 in Bishkek...
Combating corruption in the judiciary focus of OSCE workshop in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 19 June 2017
An OSCE-supported workshop for some 30 judges and regional court employees from Kazakhstan on best practices in combating corruption in the judiciary concluded on 19 June 2017 in Astana...
Inauguration of OSCE booth at Astana Expo2017 puts importance of economic and environmental international security co-operation on centre stage
Publishing date: 17 June 2017
Vienna, 17 June 2017 – The OSCE officially joined the ranks of 22 other high-profile international organizations that are this year participating in Astana EXPO-2017 on the theme of “Future Energy” by holding an inaugural ceremony on 14 June 2017.
OSCE Mission to Serbia and Prosecutor`s Office for Organized Crime jointly support more efficient seizure of proceeds from crime
Publishing date: 16 June 2017
Some 40 court presidents, prosecutors, judges, deputy prosecutors and representatives of the Ministry of Interior`s Service for Combating Organized Crime discussed the impact of recently introduced amendments to the Law on Seizure of the Proceeds from Crime during the joint OSCE Mission to Serbia/Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime (POOC) roundtable discussion in Belgrade on 16 June 2017...
OSCE-supported changes to legal regulations on private economic activity to save Kyrgyzstan businesses around 17 million EUR
Publishing date: 15 June 2017
The Kyrgyzstan Government’s Regulatory Reform Council reviewed on 8 June 2017 the third package of recommendations for improving the legal framework regulating private economic activity, developed under the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek’s project Systematic Analysis of Regulations (SAR)...