News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Young women professionals in Central Asia get career kick-start in energy sector through OSCE training course
Publishing date: 21 April 2023
The OSCE organized an intensive in-person and online training course from 17 to 21 April 2023 on renewable energy for around 100 young women from Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Mongolia, to help them kick-start careers in the sustainable energy sector.
Tajik rescuers complete the OSCE-EU organized training course on avalanche safety
Publishing date: 17 March 2023
The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe completed a capacity-building training course on avalanche safety for 20 representatives of Tajikistan’s Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defence on 17 March 2023. The two-week course aimed at enhancing the rescuers’ skills and capacities in the area of search and rescue operations in an avalanche area as well as the recovery of victims after an avalanche in challenging winter conditions.
Digitalization and development of women’s business focus of the IV Forum of Women Farmers co-organized by the OSCE in Tashkent
Publishing date: 28 February 2023
The development of women’s business in agriculture was the focus of the Forum of Women Farmers “Digitization and New Technologies – Success Way of Farmer Women” co-organized today by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz) together with the International Business Women Association of Uzbekistan (IBWA) and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
OSCE supports decision makers in the Central Asian energy sector to foster women’s equal participation
Publishing date: 12 December 2022
The OSCE held a regional workshop on Fostering Women’s Participation in the Energy Sector in Central Asia, jointly with the Qazaq Green Renewable Energy Sources (RES) Association and with in-kind support from UNDP Kazakhstan in Astana, Kazakhstan, on 7-8 December. The event offered a platform for 30 representatives from energy ministries, industry, women’s energy associations, and academia from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to discuss regional opportunities and challenges facing women in the energy sector.
Tackling wildfires in a changing climate – OSCE facilitates co-operation among emergency management and climate experts
Publishing date: 7 December 2022
On 5 and 6 December, representatives of national institutions responsible for fire management and climate change from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Mongolia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia got together in a cross-regional workshop, Wildfire Management for Enhancing Climate Resilience and Security in Skopje, North Macedonia.
OSCE Field Operations and other OSCE Executive Structures trained on climate change and security
Publishing date: 28 November 2022
On 23 and 24 November 2022, 40 representatives from the OSCE Field Operations and other OSCE Executive Structures gathered in Istanbul to participate in a climate change and security training organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities and the Berlin-based think tank, adelphi.
Sustainable development and gender responsive budgeting focus of two OSCE-supported workshops with parliamentary staff in Montenegro
Publishing date: 24 November 2022
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro continued its cooperation with Parliament in providing specialized workshops to their staff on environmental protection and gender responsive budgeting.