News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Montenegro organizes regional conference on countering online child exploitation
Publishing date: 5 September 2022
Participants of a two-day regional conference “Countering online Child Exploitation in Southeast Europe”, organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro on 5 and 6 September 2022 in Budva, shared approaches and experiences and committed to improve their regional co-operation in providing an effective response to online sexual exploitation of children.
Hacker attack on Buka web portal's Facebook page is a violation of right to freedom of expression
Publishing date: 21 July 2022
This morning news portal BUKA lost access to their Facebook page because their account was hacked.
OSCE trains Central Asian law enforcement experts to combat cybercrime through open source digital forensics
Publishing date: 20 May 2022
Law enforcement experts from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have improved their capacity to fight cybercrime through a training course organized on 16-20 May by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department in close co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan and the Law Enforcement Academy under the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan co-hosts ceremony to award winners of open data hackathon
Publishing date: 28 December 2021
On 28 December 2021, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz) co-hosted an award ceremony recognizing the winners of the Open Data Challenge 2021 hackathon, an IT contest to develop digital solutions based on open data. The ceremony and the hackathon were organized by the PCUz in collaboration with the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Statistics (UZSTAT), the Technological Park of Software Products and Information Technologies (IT-Park Uzbekistan) and other national partners.
BiH Ministry of Defence and OSCE Mission to BiH organize 13th Strategic Political-Military Seminar on cybersecurity and crisis management
Publishing date: 8 December 2021
SARAJEVO, 8 December 2021- The Ministry of Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), in co-operation with the OSCE Mission to BiH, launched today in Sarajevo the 13th strategic political-military seminar. The themes this year are cybersecurity and crisis management.
OSCE organizes regional train-the-trainers course on cybercrime in Central Asia
Publishing date: 26 November 2021
A five-day OSCE regional train-the-trainers course on cybercrime for criminal justice practitioners from the five Central Asian OSCE participating States concluded on 26 November 2021. The course aimed to provide practitioners with the knowledge and skills necessary for developing and delivering professional training courses on this topic.
Criminal justice practitioners from North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia attend OSCE-supported workshops on the use of open source intelligence in criminal investigations
Publishing date: 12 November 2021
The rapid growth of technology and social media has redefined how people communicate. It has also significantly changed the way organized crime groups operate.