News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE holds interactive workshop on including a diverse group of young people in activities to strengthen community resilience to violent extremism
Publishing date: 30 March 2022
On 30 March 2022, 11 practitioners from Central Asia and South-Eastern Europe took part in an interactive, online OSCE workshop on inclusive youth engagement in preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism (P/CVERLT).
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities calls for end to violence in Ukraine, warns of long-term and widespread effects on national minorities
Publishing date: 30 March 2022
THE HAGUE, 30 March 2022 – OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Kairat Abdrakhmanov is deeply concerned about the appeals he has received from Ukraine, including from representatives of national minorities, about the humanitarian situation in the country...
OSCE organizes workshops on youth crime and drug use prevention in Tashkent
Publishing date: 30 March 2022
The Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities and the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, co-organized together with the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, workshops on 9, 29 and 30 March 2022 in Tashkent on best practices and challenges in the field of youth crime and drug use prevention. The workshops also addressed the need to strengthen educational programmes to foster youth’s understanding of these threats.
OSCE seminar addresses role of non-profit organizations in combating anti-money laundering and financing of terrorism in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 29 March 2022
On 29 March 2022, the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat organized an online seminar on the tasks and functions of non-profit organizations (NPOs) and their supervising agencies in the implementation of the 2021-2022 national Risk Management Action Plan (RMAP) in preparation for the Eurasian Group’s (EAG) anti-money laundering and countering financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) mutual evaluation process.
Preventing violations of international humanitarian law and protecting civilians require closer cooperation, OSCE leaders say
Publishing date: 28 March 2022
VIENNA/WARSAW, 28 March 2022 – To achieve progress on implementing the commitments made by all OSCE countries to resolve disputes peacefully and ensure stability in the region, urgent consultation is needed to increase co-operation to protect civilians and investigate and prosecute violations of international humanitarian and human rights law, OSCE leaders said at the opening of a two-day conference today.
OSCE holds workshop on development of training curriculum for combating gender-based violence in South-Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 28 March 2022
On 24 March 2022, the OSCE organized an online regional workshop on developing a training curriculum for law enforcement and judiciary on gender-based violence. The curriculum will be delivered during a regional train-the-trainers course, as part of the project Enhancing Criminal Justice Capacities for Combating Gender-based Violence in South-Eastern Europe (2021-2024). Tailored workshops to further adapt the curriculum to the national contexts will be organized for each project beneficiary country: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia.
