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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE and UNODC deliver training course in Kyrgyzstan on analytical techniques and using financial intelligence to effectively counter terrorist financing
Publishing date: 2 September 2019
A five-day training course aimed at strengthening the capacity of Kyrgyzstan to counter terrorist financing concluded in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan on 31 August 2019. It was organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)...
OSCE supports training seminar for government officials on anti-money laundering and combating terrorist financing in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 29 August 2019
A three-day training seminar on anti-money laundering and combating terrorist financing concluded on 29 August 2019 in Nur-Sultan. Some 50 government officials from law-enforcement agencies and the judiciary took part in the event...
OSCE strengthens Kyrgyzstan’s national capacities to prevent and counter use of Internet for terrorist purposes
Publishing date: 26 August 2019
A three-day national table-top exercise (TTX) on preventing and countering the use of the internet for terrorist purposes, for some 30 Kyrgyz representatives from diverse backgrounds and perspectives, including representatives of government, law enforcement, civil society, media, academia and the private sector, began on 25 August 2019 in Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan.
OSCE facilitates “whole-of-government” and “whole-of-society” approaches in preventing and countering the use of the Internet for terrorist purposes in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 21 August 2019
A three-day national tabletop exercise on the topic of countering the use of the Internet for terrorist purposes started in Dushanbe on 21 August 2019.
OSCE Senior Gender Adviser visits Russian Federation
Publishing date: 7 August 2019
The OSCE Senior Adviser on Gender Issues, Amarsanaa Darisuren, visited the Russian Federation from 29 to 31 July 2019 with the aim of further enhancing links and co-operation in the field of gender equality. She held discussions with representatives from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Labour and Social Protection, and Higher Education and Science, as well as the Office of the Prosecutor General and the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation. She also met with the Chair of the Women’s Union of Russia and the Chair of the national NGO Business Women of Russia...
OSCE supports training seminar on anti-money laundering and combating financing of terrorism in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 2 August 2019
The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan supported a two-day seminar on anti- money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) on 1 and 2 August 2019 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
President Tsereteli appoints new Co-Chairs of OSCE PA’s Ad Hoc Committee on Countering Terrorism
Publishing date: 1 August 2019
COPENHAGEN, 1 August 2019 – Norwegian parliamentarian Abid Raja has been appointed as Chair of the OSCE PA’s Ad Hoc Committee on Countering Terrorism (CCT) and will take up his responsibilities immediately. OSCE PA President George Tsereteli (MP, Georgia) made the appointment Monday and also this week appointed Lisa Chambers (MP, Ireland) as Co-Chair of the CCT...