News and press releases

The importance of the social re-use of assets recovered from organized crime and corruption as a public good, and the potential lever it creates to reduce crime and corruption was the focus of an online workshop the OSCE held for participants from Albania on 24 November 2020. The event brought together law enforcement practitioners and representatives of the Agency for the Administration of Seized and Confiscated Assets, local and international civil society organizations and academia...

On the occasion of the Annual 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, the OSCE Presence in Albania joins the host country’s awareness-raising campaign modelled after the UN worldwide campaign. This year’s theme for the campaign is “Listen. Believe. Support.”

The COVID-19 pandemic reminds us all that the local government level is the closest to its citizens, and thus better positioned to respond to their specific challenges and needs, stated participants of an online discussion hosted on 19 November 2020 by the OSCE Presence in Albania, with support of the Ministry of Interior. The meeting was held to discuss the key findings of a situation assessment report on the response of 13 targeted municipalities to the COVID-19 pandemic...

The sixth Media Development Forum – a platform for professional dialogue on media issues among state institutions, media and civil society – concluded on 20 November in Tirana. The OSCE Presence in Albania organized the two-day annual event...

The OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department’s Action against Terrorism Unit, in co-operation with the OSCE Presence in Albania and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) organized an online train-the-trainer course from 11 to 13 November 2020, with the aim of further strengthening Albania’s capacities in countering the financing of terrorism...

The OSCE Presence in Albania organized an online training course from 4 to 10 November 2020 for ten managers of the country’s public broadcasting service, RTSH, with the aim of enhancing skills in running newsrooms...

Seventeen women councillors from all across Albania successfully finalized the two-day final module of the OSCE Presence’s Women Municipal Excellence Programme (WoMEP) held in person with strict adherence to the COVID-19 safety rules and protocols from 6 to 7 November 2020. The module aimed at linking capacity-building and local development with gender equality. The programme combined on-the-job advice and direct training. This was the third module of the programme with two previous ones taking place in December 2019 and October 2020.