News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Fifth OSCE simulation-based training in combating human trafficking along migration routes concludes in Vicenza
Publishing date: 17 December 2018
Over 70 anti-trafficking practitioners from more than 30 OSCE participating States and Partners for Co-operation in Europe, Central Asia and North America practiced how to apply a multi-agency and human rights-based approach during the fifth OSCE international simulation-based training to combat
OSCE trains Montenegrin airport border and customs officers on behavioural analysis and identification of foreign terrorist fighters and criminals at airports
Publishing date: 17 December 2018
A national training course on behavioural analysis and identification of foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) and criminals at airports for 24 border and customs officers from Montenegro’s Podgorica and Tivat airports, the Civil Aviation Agency and the Intelligence Agency of Montenegro was held from 11 to 14 December 2018 in Podgorica...
OSCE in co-operation with UNODC holds regional workshop in Belgrade for high-level policymakers on preventing youth crime and violence
Publishing date: 17 December 2018
How to prevent crime and violence committed by young people by encouraging their engagement in developing life skills, sports and education was explored at a workshop for around 30 high-level policymakers from South-East Europe organized in Belgrade on 17 December 2018 by the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department in co-operation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the OSCE Mission to Serbia...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator helps Ukraine to enhance environmental monitoring to better address conflict-related risks
Publishing date: 17 December 2018
An online, digital platform for monitoring the environment in conflict-affected areas of eastern Ukraine, and the first baseline assessment of a water monitoring programme in the Siverskyi Donets river basin were presented at an event in Kyiv on 17 December 2018. Both were delivered with the support of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine and are designed to be used by the country’s Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources and the State Water Agency to track the environmental situation in the region and keep the general public informed...
Montenegro’s national platform for suppressing VERLT, developed with support from OSCE Mission, presented in Podgorica
Publishing date: 14 December 2018
The Government of Montenegro presented its national platform for suppressing violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism (VERLT) in Podgorica on 14 December 2018. It was developed by the Montenegrin Ministry of the Interior and the Center for Democratic Transition (CDT) with the support of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro.
OSCE/ODIHR builds capacity of human rights defenders to carry out open source investigations
Publishing date: 14 December 2018
Building the capacity of human rights defenders to use open source investigation techniques for human rights monitoring projects was the focus of a training workshop, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in co-operation with the nonprofit technology
OSCE Project Co-ordinator supports international conference and media forum on Uzbekistan’s progress in combating corruption
Publishing date: 14 December 2018
The progress Uzbekistan has made in combating corruption over the course of this year was the focus of an international conference and subsequent media forum organized by the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan with the support of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan and other international organizations on 13 and 14 December 2018 in Tashkent.