News and press releases

A two-week advanced train-the-trainer course for ten Ukrainian border control officers took place from 4 to 14 December 2017 in Cherkasy, Ukraine. Organized by the Border Security and Management Unit of the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department (TNTD/BSMU), the course aimed to develop the officers’ knowledge about fraudulent documents and their teachings skills for delivering such training courses themselves in the future.

Building the capacity of prospective youth applicants on how to plan and implement intercultural exchanges in response to the Regional Youth Co-operation Office’s (RYCO) call for proposals was the focus of a three-day training course organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro from 11 to 13 December.

The annual Security Policy Course, which gathered 30 officials from governmental institutions, police, armed forces, parliaments and representatives of civil society and academia in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), concluded on 14 December 2017 in Sarajevo. The course was organized by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina in co-operation with the Council of Ministers’ Inter-Ministerial Working Group for BiH Security Policy Implementation...

Regional youth co-operation, the digital engagement of young people, and societal changes and opportunities enabled by the generation of young people commonly referred to as millennials were the focus of an international conference held in Belgrade on 13 and 14 December 2017...

VIENNA, 13 December 2017 – Following prosecution’s demand for life sentences and court decisions to continue the detention of several journalists facing life in prison, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir today repeated his call for Turkey to release imprisoned journalists...

Some 100 high-level officials from the region dealing with the fight against corruption and senior representatives of Serbian institutions, civil society organizations and the media gathered for a regional conference in Belgrade on 14 December 2017 to mark the International Anti-Corruption Day.

Updating a handbook created to assist OSCE participating States in establishing sustainable mechanisms and structures to counter human trafficking was the focus of a high-level international expert meeting organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw