News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Third OSCE regional workshop on social re-use of confiscated assets held in Vienna
Publishing date: 27 March 2023
On 23 and 24 March, the OSCE facilitated the third gathering for representatives of asset management agencies and civil society from South-Eastern Europe to discuss the progress on establishing procedures for the re-use of confiscated criminal assets for social purposes.
OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration releases Annual Report 2022
Publishing date: 24 March 2023
The OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration’s 2022 annual report, published on 24 March 2023, gives an account of institutional matters and emphasizes the multiple endeavors undertaken by the Bureau members to raise awareness of the Court and its potential.
OSCE trains directors and staff members from women resource centres in Tajikistan on business development strategy
Publishing date: 24 March 2023
Twenty-seven representatives from the OSCE-supported Women’s Resource Centres (WRCs), of which fourteen are directors learned how to achieve organizational sustainability through engagement in social entrepreneurship income generation at a training course in Dushanbe. The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe organized the course, which took place from 13 to 17 Mach 2023.
First national OSCE training courses in Moldova on cryptocurrency risks, investigations and supervision conclude
Publishing date: 24 March 2023
With the growing security risks in crypto and real-world economies, the OSCE organized from 20 to 25 March in Chisinau its first national training courses for Moldova on money laundering related to virtual assets.
A push to strengthen regional co-operation on parliamentary oversight of defence and security in Southeast Europe
Publishing date: 23 March 2023
Sarajevo, 23 March 2023 – As current Chair of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC), and in partnership with the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 22 March in Vienna, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) organized a side event Strengthening Regional Co-operation on Parliamentary Oversight of Defence and Security in Southeast Europe.
OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism invoked to examine alleged human rights violations and abuses in the Republic of Belarus
Publishing date: 23 March 2023
Thirty-eight OSCE participating States invoked the OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism on 23 March 2023 to examine “threats to the fulfilment of the provisions of the human dimension posed by human rights violations and abuses in the Republic of Belarus”. The Moscow Mechanism, last invoked on 28 July 2022 in
Ambassadors Aggeler and Murphy hand over ICT equipment to anti-corruption bodies across the country
Publishing date: 23 March 2023
Ambassador Brian Aggeler, Head of the OSCE Mission to BiH, and Ambassador Michael J. Murphy, U.S. Ambassador to BiH, handed over ICT equipment to anti-corruption bodies from Republika Srpska, the Federation of BiH, Brčko District BiH and nine cantons. The donation is worth around 126,000 EUR and