News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE and UN Office on Drugs and Crime deliver training course in Kazakhstan on investigation tools and skills to effectively counter terrorist financing
Publishing date: 17 June 2019
A five-day training course aimed at further strengthening the capacity of Kazakhstan to counter terrorist financing was organized in Burabay, Kazakhstan, from 11 to 15 June 2019. The training seminar was delivered to participants from the capital and from the country’s Akmola, Aktobe and Karaganda regions.
OSCE project on green ports and connectivity, for security and economic growth in the Caspian Sea region, launched in Baku
Publishing date: 14 June 2019
On 14 June 2019 in Baku, the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities together with the Director of the Port of Baku launched the project Promoting Green Ports and Connectivity in the Caspian Sea Region...
OSCE trains Bulgarian criminal justice practitioners on effective responses to gender-based violence
Publishing date: 14 June 2019
A four-day specialized training course on appropriate and effective responses to gender-based violence for Bulgarian criminal justice practitioners was held from 10 to 14 June 2019, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria...
OSCE Mediterranean Points of Contact Network on border security and management complete training course on passenger data systems in Bari, Italy
Publishing date: 14 June 2019
Members of the OSCE Mediterranean Points of Contact Network on border security and management completed an intensive and interactive four-day training course on Advance Passenger Information (API) and Passenger Name Record (PNR) systems on 14 June 2019 in Bari, Italy...
OSCE organizes national seminar in Georgia on a whole-of-society approach to preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism
Publishing date: 13 June 2019
A two-day national seminar on a whole-of-society approach to countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism (VERLT), organized by the OSCE and the Government of Georgia, began on 13 June 2019 in Tbilisi. This is the first seminar of the kind organized by the OSCE in the country...
OSCE Secretary General, high-level OSCE officials mark fifth anniversary of AUTINT-run pre-deployment training for Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine in Götzendorf, Lower Austria
Publishing date: 12 June 2019
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger and other high-level OSCE officials visited the Austrian Armed Forces International Centre (AUTINT) in Götzendorf, Lower Austria, on 24 May 2019 to mark the fifth anniversary of the Centre’s provision of pre-deployment training for the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM). He was accompanied by the Chief Monitor of the SMM, Ertugrul Apakan, the Deputy Permanent Representative of Slovakia to the OSCE, Ambassador Katarina Zakova, and the current Chief of the Austrian General Staff Directorate, Major General Bruno Hofbauer.
Report of OSCE-supported Conference on Tackling Modern Slavery, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in Public Procurement Supply Chains
Publishing date: 11 June 2019
Vienna, 11 June 2019- The report of the International Conference on Tackling Modern Slavery, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in Public Procurement Supply Chains, held in London in March this year, was published today.