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On International Roma Day, OSCE/ODIHR Director calls for greater efforts to improve co-operation between police and Roma communities
Publishing date: 8 April 2014
Content type: Press release
What we do: Policing, Roma and Sinti
WARSAW, 8 April 2014 – Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), called today for greater efforts to improve relations and co-operation between police forces and Roma communities. On the occasion of International Roma Day, he further called on law-enforcement authorities to ensure effective police responses to violence against Roma and Sinti people in the OSCE area...
OSCE launches new guidebook on community policing in preventing terrorism
Publishing date: 17 March 2014
Content type: News
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Countering terrorism, Policing
VIENNA, 17 March 2014 – The role of community policing in preventing terrorism and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism is the subject of a new guidebook launched by the OSCE in Vienna today.
OSCE-UNODC staff meeting on Joint Action Plan stresses importance of co-operative approach to fight against transnational threats
Publishing date: 10 February 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
Senior staff from The OSCE and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) met today to discuss achievements to date under the 2013-2014 Joint Action Plan and future opportunities for co-operation between the two organizations.
OSCE regional workshop explores role of community police in fighting domestic violence
Publishing date: 28 January 2014
MINSK, 28 January 2014 – Helping police to better respond to cases of domestic violence was the focus of a two-day OSCE regional workshop, which opened in Minsk today, for members of community police from Belarus and Moldova...
Protecting human rights during counter-terrorism investigations focus of new OSCE/ODIHR manual
Publishing date: 29 November 2013
Content type: News
What we do: Countering terrorism, Policing
A new manual for law enforcement officers on protecting and respecting human rights during counter-terrorism investigations was launched by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department/Strategic Police Matters Unit in Vienna on 29 November 2013...
OSCE joins forces with international organizations to seek answers to irregular migration problem
Publishing date: 30 October 2013
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism, Migration, Policing
A project organised jointly by the OSCE, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the International Organization for Migration, to map the links between irregular migration, migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings along the East Mediterranean Migration Route, began with a seminar in Vienna on 30 and 31 October 2013.
OSCE policing experts share plans to improve anti-crime action across region
Publishing date: 24 October 2013
Experts in policing from the OSCE region meet in Vienna from 24 to 25 October 2013 to identify how to build on present practice to best tackle criminal threats to security despite the economic downturn...