News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE conducts specialized training course on effective responses to gender-based violence for Hungarian criminal justice practitioners
Publishing date: 10 May 2019
A four-day specialized training course on appropriate and effective responses to gender-based violence for criminal justice practitioners from Hungary was held from 6 to 10 May 2019, at the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) headquarters in Budapest, Hungary...
OSCE and UNODA train 50 young female professionals on arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation
Publishing date: 10 May 2019
A training course jointly organized by the OSCE and UNODA on arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation was held for 50 young female professionals from the OSCE’s participating States and Partners for Co-operation from 6 to 10 May 2019 in Vienna. The course was held as part of the OSCE Scholarship for Peace and Security...
ODIHR and Transparency International join forces to combat political corruption
Publishing date: 10 May 2019
On 8 May, ODIHR and Transparency International (TI) launched a platform bringing together international organizations, civil society and academia to combat political corruption by building a shared awareness of the concept and its practice, and at the same time increasing the ability of TI offices across the OSCE region to analyse, monitor, and investigate real and potential cases.
Staff of the Prosecutor General’s Office complete OSCE-supported training course on Kyrgyzstan's new criminal justice legislation
Publishing date: 10 May 2019
The OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights supported a three-day training course for local prosecutors on Kyrgyzstan's new criminal justice legislation. The event was organized by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Kyrgyz Republic and held from 6 to 8 May 2019 in Bishkek. This is the first round of training for staff of Kyrgyzstan’s Prosecutor General’s Office. Similar training courses will be conducted in all regions of Kyrgyzstan throughout the year.
OSCE supports three-day workshop on protection of Montenegro’s cultural heritage in Podgorica and Cetinje
Publishing date: 9 May 2019
PODGORICA/CETINJE, 7-9 May 2019 – To further strengthen Montenegro’s capacities in creating a digital cultural property database, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro with the support of the OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) organized a three-day workshop on best practices in protecting cultural heritage from traffickers in cultural property from 7 to 9 May 2019 in Podgorica and Cetinje...
OSCE training workshop on intelligence-led policing, advantages to contemporary policing in Uzbekistan, held in Tashkent
Publishing date: 9 May 2019
The OSCE-recommended model of intelligence-led policing (ILP) and its advantages for contemporary policing to the Uzbek Police, training workshop organized by the OSCE Secretariat, in co-operation with the OSCE Office of the Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, was held on 10 May 2019 in Tashkent...
Ukrainian delegation visits OSCE Secretariat and Austria’s Interior Ministry as part of project on combating human trafficking and smuggling of migrants
Publishing date: 8 May 2019
Representatives of Ukraine’s Ministry of Social Policy, the country’s Office of the Prosecutor General, the police and the State Service for Labour Issues visited the OSCE Secretariat and the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior on 7 and 8 May 2019 as part of an OSCE capacity-building project that aims to combat human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants...