News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports training seminar on risk-based approach to combat money laundering and terrorism financing in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 18 September 2018
An OSCE-supported two-day training seminar on applying a risk-based approach to counter money laundering and the financing of terrorism for some 80 representatives from the National Bank of Kazakhstan, the Financial Monitoring Committee and the second-tier banks concluded on 18 September 2018 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
Freedom of speech and expression in the armed forces focus of ODIHR and EUROMIL discussion in Warsaw
Publishing date: 17 September 2018
Experts and representatives of armed forces, defence ministries, military trade unions and professional associations from a range of OSCE participating States shared experiences and good practices in protecting armed forces’ right to freedom of expression while ensuring operational effectiveness at
International human rights standards and good practices in policing assemblies in Western Balkans focus of event co-organized by OSCE/ODIHR in Warsaw
Publishing date: 17 September 2018
Challenges and good practices in ensuring human rights-compliant assembly policing in the Western Balkans region and related available resources were explored and presented at an event in Warsaw on 17 September 2018, during the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. Some 40 representatives of
Warsaw event explores tools to advance youth political participation throughout the OSCE region
Publishing date: 17 September 2018
New, youth-specific tools and research aimed at assisting policymakers and youth stakeholders working to enhance youth wellbeing and political engagement in the OSCE region were introduced at an event in Warsaw on 14 September 2018. Youth experts and practitioners, as well as representatives of
OSCE donates radio and television equipment to the Media Academy in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 17 September 2018
The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe handed over technical equipment as a donation to the Media Academy of Tajikistan’s State Television and Radio Committee. The handover ceremony took place in the premises of the Media Academy in Dushanbe on 15 September 2018...
OSCE, UNODC and EAG conduct train-the-trainer course on countering terrorist financing for Kazakh government officials
Publishing date: 17 September 2018
A two-day train-the-trainer course for Kazakh government officials on countering terrorist financing was organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, in partnership with the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's Global Programme against Money Laundering (UNODC/GPML) and the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism (EAG), from 14 to 15 September 2018, at the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna...
OSCE/ODIHR partners with pro-democracy bodies in release of proposed global agenda on improving democratic institutions
Publishing date: 14 September 2018
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) teamed up with other organizations working in the area of promoting democracy today in publishing an agenda to focus attention on the constructive and concrete steps that different actors can take to respond to populism by strengthening democracy.