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 Romanian officials
Publishing date: 3 June 2019
A specialized training course on appropriate and effective responses to gender-based violence for Romanian police and prosecutors, organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department/Strategic Police Matters Unit, was held from 27 to 31 May 2019 in Poiana Brasov, Romania...
Trends in ICT use to fight trafficking in human beings focus of OSCE-supported training course in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 31 May 2019
A training course on the latest trends in the use of information and communication technology (ICT) to fight trafficking in human beings concluded on 31 May 2019 in Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The course was organized by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), in co-operation with the Entity Judicial and Prosecutorial Training Centres (JPTCs) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)...
OSCE supports training seminar on the use of modern technologies to combat corruption
Publishing date: 31 May 2019
An OSCE-supported two-day training seminar on modern methods of identifying, suppressing and investigating corruption offenses concluded on 31 May 2019 in Nur-Sultan...
Gender and right to freedom of movement focus of ODIHR expert meeting
Publishing date: 30 May 2019
Practitioners and experts from OSCE field operations, civil society and international organizations discussed gender-specific challenges to the enjoyment of the right to freedom of movement in the OSCE area during an expert meeting in Warsaw on 30 May 2019. The meeting was organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).
OSCE supports presentation of expert study on countering hate speech in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 29 May 2019
An OSCE-supported meeting on the presentation of expert study on freedom of expression and policies to counter incitement of hatred speech took place on 29 May 2019 in Nur-Sultan...
Criminal justice practitioners explore how to effectively counter cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime at OSCE conference in Vienna
Publishing date: 27 May 2019
More than 140 criminal justice practitioners and representatives of the OSCE participating States, OSCE Partners for Co-operation and international organizations explored how to effectively counter cybercrime and cyber-enabled crime at a conference in Vienna on 24 May organized by the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the 2019 Slovak OSCE Chairmanship and the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior...
OSCE Media Freedom Representative strongly condemns shooting of journalist Hakan Denizli, expresses alarm about dire safety conditions in Turkey
Publishing date: 25 May 2019
VIENNA, 25 May 2019 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, today strongly denounced the shooting of journalist Hakan Denizli in Turkey. Denizli, founder of the local daily Egemen, was shot in the leg after two persons opened fire while he was leaving his home in Adana.