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Albania enhances strategic use of open source intelligence for financial investigations through OSCE workshop

Publishing date: 21 June 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
Criminal justice professionals in Albania took part in an OSCE-organized national workshop from 14 to 18 June 2021 to enhance their capacities to develop intelligence through open-source internet research.

OSCE Secretary General Schmid to visit Moscow

Publishing date: 20 June 2021
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
VIENNA, 20 June 2021 — OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid will visit Moscow for meetings with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov, other high-level officials and parliamentarians from 21 to 24 June...

Dialogue and engagement needed for addressing security threats and new technologies in arms control, say participants at OSCE Security Chat

Publishing date: 16 June 2021
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control
VIENNA, 16 June 2021 — We need constructive dialogue and re-engagement at all levels of arms control to address current and future security threats and the challenges posed by new technologies, agreed participants at the OSCE Security Chat held online today.

North Macedonia participates in train-the-trainer course as part of OSCE–UNODC training programme to strengthen capacities to counter terrorist financing

Publishing date: 16 June 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
The OSCE Transnational Threats Department’s Action against Terrorism Unit and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) organized an online train-the-trainer course from 14 to 16 June 2021, as part of a multiannual training programme to strengthen North Macedonia’s capacities in countering the financing of terrorism.

OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid ends two-day visit to Georgia

Publishing date: 16 June 2021
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
TBILISI, 16 June 2021 — OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid concluded her visit to Georgia yesterday, following two days of intensive discussions and field visits.

A turning point in the anti-trafficking discussion- OSCE launches paper on confronting the demand fuelling sexual exploitation

Publishing date: 15 June 2021
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combatting Trafficking in Human Beings, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating human trafficking
VIENNA, 15 June 2021 – As a result of years of research involving the analysis of legal and statistical data from over 50 national governments, international and civil society organizations, the OSCE released today the paper on “Discouraging the Demand that Fosters Trafficking for the Purpose of Sexual Exploitation”...

Side-event on Women in Water Management

Publishing date: 15 June 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities
What we do: Water management, Environmental activities, Gender equality
The important role of women in water management was discussed on 10 June 2021 in an online side-event in the margins of the Second Preparatory Meeting of the 29th OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum. The Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) organized the event in collaboration with the Governments of Finland, Ireland and Japan...