News and press releases

A five-day OSCE regional train-the-trainers course on cybercrime for criminal justice practitioners from the five Central Asian OSCE participating States concluded on 24 September 2021. The course aimed to provide the practitioners with the knowledge and skills necessary for developing and delivering professional training courses in this topic area.

The 2021 Aarhus Centres Annual Meeting was held in Vienna and online on 23 and 24 September 2021. The meeting focused on good environmental governance, the role of Aarhus Centres in times of disaster, green recovery, women empowerment, and promotion of the 2030 sustainable development agenda...

An OSCE-supported online seminar on water treatment and sanitation in Kazakhstan took place on 22 September 2021. Some 40 representatives of local administrations, project engineers, non-governmental organizations and the private sector from the Aktobe, Karaganda and Turkestan regions participated in the event...

VIENNA/SARAJEVO, 24 September 2021- OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Teresa Ribeiro and Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Kathleen Kavalec condemned today a targeted online hate campaign against several media professionals in BiH, urging the authorities to take effective measures to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators in accordance with the law...

Twenty young women and men from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River developed negotiation skills and participated in a conflict resolution simulation exercise as part of the 8th edition of the Model OSCE for Youth event organized online by the OSCE Mission to Moldova from 21 to 24 September 2021.

Summary In Donetsk region, the Mission recorded 745 ceasefire violations, including 160 explosions. In the previous reporting period, it recorded 117 ceasefire violations in the region. In Luhansk region, the SMM recorded 144 ceasefire violations, including 14 explosions. In the previous reporting

On 23 September 2021, the South-East Europe Police Chiefs Association (SEPCA), chaired by Montenegro, opened a two day conference in Budva hosted by the Ministry of Interior’s Police Directorate with the support of the OSCE Mission in Montenegro...