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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE seminar explores role of suspicious transaction analysis and financial investigation in combating money laundering and related crimes in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 15 July 2020
Sharing advanced experience in the analysis of suspicious transactions reports (STR) and further financial investigation is the objective of an OSCE-organized online seminar that opened in Ashgabat on 15 July 2020. The two-day event will provide an overview of initial, operational and strategic analysis and financial investigation in efforts to combat money laundering, the financing of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
OSCE donates supplies to various government and civil society partners across Tajikistan to prevent the spread of COVID-19
Publishing date: 10 July 2020
The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe on 8 and 9 July 2020 donated various items and supplies to partners in the Tajik government as well as a number of civil society representatives in all regions of the country to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
OSCE organizes Kazakh-language seminar on cybersecurity at home
Publishing date: 10 July 2020
An OSCE-supported online seminar on staying safe in cyberspace, conducted in the Kazakh language, was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan on 9 July 2020
Online events supported by OSCE Project Co-Ordinator in Uzbekistan discussed rule of law and foreign policy
Publishing date: 10 July 2020
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan co-hosted two online roundtable discussions on the main priority areas of the State Programme for the year 2020, which is part of the 2017-2021 National Action Strategy. The two events focused on the fields of rule of law and foreign policy, on 7 and 9 July respectively and were organized in co-operation with the Development Strategy Centre.
OSCE organizes online discussion on exploitation of COVID-19 pandemic by organized crime groups
Publishing date: 9 July 2020
The OSCE Transnational Threats Department (TNTD), the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) and the OSCE Mission to Serbia organized a webinar on the exploitation of the COVID-19 pandemic by organized crime groups on 8 July 2020.
Youth’s potential in preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization discussed at OSCE-supported workshop in Montenegro
Publishing date: 9 July 2020
Young people represent the most vulnerable group exposed to violent extremism and radicalization, but also have the greatest potential to combat and prevent it. This was the conclusion of a two-day workshop on youth engagement to prevent and counter violent extremism (P/CVE) and radicalization, organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro and the Ministry of Sports and Youth on 6 and 7 July 2020 in Bečići...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports drafting of the Police Strategy
Publishing date: 3 July 2020
To support the drafting of the new 2021-2024 Police Development Strategy and the 2021-2022 Action Plan, on 2 and 3 July 2020 in Bečići, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro facilitated a series of four working sessions, with 38 officials of the Interior Ministry and Police Directorate, to develop these strategic documents...