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OSCE launches online training on mainstreaming gender in the security sector
Publishing date: 11 October 2018
At an event on 10 and 11 October in Vienna, the Border Security and Management Unit of the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department launched an online training course on mainstreaming gender in the security sector.
OSCE organizes regional workshop on combating illicit cross-border trafficking in cultural property in Montenegro
Publishing date: 5 October 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Montenegro, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Border management, Policing
PODGORICA, 5 October 2018 – More than 50 participants from police, border and customs services, and the Ministries of Justice and Culture from South-east Europe and the Caucasus completed a five-day workshop in Podgorica today on combating illicit cross-border trafficking in cultural property...
OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe holds training course on emergency first aid for border service staff
Publishing date: 21 September 2018
A five-day training course on emergency first aid concluded on 21 September 2018 at the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe...
Weekly Update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 14 August 2018
Publishing date: 14 August 2018
Content type: Weekly report
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution
Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). The overall number of border crossings by persons increased at both BCPs compared to the previous week.
OSCE holds workshop on border re-demarcation best practices in Dushanbe
Publishing date: 10 August 2018
The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe organized a workshop on border re-demarcation best practices for 21 border officials from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan from 6 to10 August 2018 in Dushanbe...
OSCE-supported series of mobile group training courses for border troops concludes in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 9 August 2018
Mine risk awareness, human rights, gender mainstreaming and the importance of local population involvement in border protection were the focus of three 14-day mobile training courses, that were organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe and concluded on 9 August 2019...
OSCE co-organizes London study visit on Advance Passenger Information for Kazakhstan officials
Publishing date: 8 August 2018
The OSCE Programme Office in Astana and the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Office of the United States Embassy in Astana organized a visit to London from 24 to 26 July 2018 for eight officials from Kazakhstan to study the United Kingdom’s experience in introducing the Advanced Passenger Information Exchange System (API) and the Passenger Name Recorder (PNR)...