News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Trafficking in human beings focus of OSCE-supported training course in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 1 February 2018
More than 30 prosecutors and judges from across Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) attended a training course on trafficking in human beings (THB), which concluded on 1 February 2018 in Sarajevo. The course was organized by the OSCE Mission to BiH, in co-operation with the Judicial and Prosecutorial Training Center of the Federation of BiH.
Towards Achieving Gender Parity: New Global Approaches?
Publishing date: 1 February 2018
What strategies are needed to reach gender parity in international and regional organizations like the United Nations and the OSCE? Some fifty delegates of OSCE participating States and OSCE staff members gathered to exchange views on this question at Café Demel in Vienna on 30 January 2018. The event was organized by the Gender Section of the Office of the OSCE Secretary General in co-operation with Norway’s Permanent Delegation to the OSCE.
OSCE media freedom representative calls on Turkey to release detained journalists and respect everyone’s right to express ideas freely
Publishing date: 26 January 2018
VIENNA, 26 January 2018 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir today called on the Turkish authorities to drop terrorism charges against journalists and set them free...
OSCE/ODIHR Young Policy Adviser Course brings together young officials from Eastern Europe and South Caucasus in Sweden
Publishing date: 26 January 2018
Nearly 30 young officials from six OSCE participating States in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus increased their knowledge about democratic institutions and OSCE commitments in the field of democratic governance during the latest edition of the Young Policy Adviser Course, organized by the
OSCE-hosted training course for South-Eastern Europe on handling digital evidence by first responders completed in Tirana
Publishing date: 26 January 2018
Handling digital evidence by first responders was the focus of a one-week train-the-trainer course for South-Eastern Europe’s criminal justice institutions, which took place from 22 to 26 January 2018 at the Albanian Security Academy in Tirana...
OSCE Programme Office in Astana supports training event on risk profiling for Kazakhstan’s Coast Guard
Publishing date: 26 January 2018
Countering transnational threats through the organization of risk profiling during sea vessel searches was the focus of an OSCE-supported five-day training course that concluded in Aktau, Kazakhstan on 26 January 2018.
OSCE supports waste management and recycling forum in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 26 January 2018
An OSCE-supported forum to discuss opportunities for attracting investments in Kazakhstan’s waste recycling sector and exchange best practices and technologies in the field was held on 26 January 2018 in Almaty. Some 60 representatives of central and local governments, regional waste recycling companies, environmental experts, civil society, international organizations and national businesses participated in the two-day event.