News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Leading by example: OSCE organizes meeting of ICAT and UN Procurement Task Force to co-ordinate efforts to prevent trafficking in supply chains
Publishing date: 10 December 2019
What if the seafood served in the cafeteria at your organization was caught and processed as a result of trafficked labour occurring on the other side of the world? Preventing labour exploitation in supply chains was the focus of a meeting organized by the Office of the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings for members of the Inter-agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons (ICAT) and the UN’s Procurement Task Force in Vienna on 10 December 2019...
Online violence against women and girls discussed at IT Girls and OSCE event in Sarajevo
Publishing date: 10 December 2019
As part of the #16Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign, the IT Girls, joint initiative by UN Women, UNICEF and UNDP, supported by Sweden, and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) joined forces to raise awareness about gender-based violence against women and girls in cyberspace at an event held on 9 December 2019 in Sarajevo...
Economic benefits of labour migration focus of OSCE workshop in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 10 December 2019
An OSCE-organized workshop entitled “Economic benefits of labour migration: OSCE best practices” took place in Ashgabat on 5 and 6 December 2019.
OSCE Project Co-ordinator helps Ukraine to enhance chemical security by expanding capacities for identification of substances
Publishing date: 10 December 2019
The Ukrainian National Reference Centre for Identification of Controlled and Toxic chemicals, established and equipped with OSCE support, was presented to the country’s expert community on 10 December 2019 in Kyiv...
Drafting 2020-2021 Action Plan for Montenegro’s Youth Strategy focus of OSCE-supported seminar
Publishing date: 9 December 2019
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized a two-day training course to help the Ministry of Sports and Youth to develop a third Action Plan for the implementation of the Government’s Youth Strategy 2017–2021 on 2 and 3 December 2019 in Budva.
OSCE Mission trains lawyers and civil society on best practices of protecting national minorities’ access to information
Publishing date: 9 December 2019
The OSCE Mission to Moldova conducted three workshops on non-discrimination and access to information for persons belonging to national minorities from 11 to 29 November 2019 in Chisinau. More than 80 legal professionals and civil society representatives from three different regions of Moldova, including the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia, participated in the workshops...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports workshops aiming to strengthen Parliamentary staff skills in drafting of legislation and amendments procedures within Committees
Publishing date: 9 December 2019
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro organized workshops to strengthen the skills of parliamentary staff to support drafting of legislation and amendments within committees on 21 and 22 November and on 3 and 4 December 2019 in Podgorica. The attendees examined the legislative drafting and amending process and discussed the practice and function of the Rules of Procedure of their parliament as compared with the practice in other parliaments.