News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE concludes workshop on use of social media to counter violent extremism and radicalization
Publishing date: 25 May 2017
The OSCE Mission in Kosovo and Kosovo Police concluded on 24 May 2017 in Prishtinë/Priština a two-day workshop on the use of the Internet and social media to counter violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism for the representatives of the police, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, religious groups, journalists and university students...
Tools to implement revised UN prison rules focus of OSCE/ODIHR and PRI side event at UN Crime Commission meeting
Publishing date: 25 May 2017
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Penal Reform International (PRI) provided information about tools to promote and implement the revised UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (Nelson
Reducing risks from military incidents discussed at the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation
Publishing date: 25 May 2017
The importance of co-operation to prevent military incidents during peacetime was the topic of the session of the Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC), currently under Russia’s Chairmanship, on 24 May 2017. The discussion focused on the Russian Federation’s national experience in the implementation of bilateral agreements on preventing incidents on and over the high seas...
OSCE/ODIHR expands its ability to train prosecutors on countering hate crime
Publishing date: 25 May 2017
Prosecutors from nine OSCE participating States and officials from the OSCE Presence in Albania and the OSCE Mission to Skopje took part in a train-the-trainers event on countering hate crime organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw from 23 to 25
Press statement of Special Representative of OSCE Chairperon-in-Office Sajdik after the meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group on 24 May 2017
Publishing date: 25 May 2017
MINSK, 25 May 2017 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Martin Sajdik, made the following statement to the press after the meeting of the TCG and its working groups in Minsk on 24 May 2017:...
At OSCE counter-terrorism conference in Vienna, OSCE PA Special Representative Kovalev urges increased co-operation and innovative measures
Publishing date: 24 May 2017
VIENNA, 24 May 2017 – In the wake of Monday’s terrorist attack in Manchester, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Special Representative on Anti-Terrorism, Nikolay Kovalev (MP, Russian Federation), participated Tuesday in the OSCE-wide Counter-Terrorism Conference 2017, being held in Vienna this week on the theme Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism...
OSCE’s project on intelligence-led policing presented on margins of UNODC’s annual Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Vienna
Publishing date: 24 May 2017
The Strategic Police Matters Unit (SPMU) of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department introduced the OSCE’s project on intelligence-led policing at a side event of UNODC’s annual Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Vienna on 25 May 2017. The event was organized in co-operation with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)...