News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Office in Tajikistan delivers training courses for police public councils in Dushanbe
Publishing date: 30 June 2017
The first in the series of training courses for Public Council members concluded on 30 June 2017 in Dushanbe. The course was jointly organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan and the international organization Saferworld...
OSCE Mission to Moldova trains police in Moldova’s north and south to investigate hate crimes
Publishing date: 20 June 2017
Between 13 and 16 June 2017, the OSCE Mission to Moldova organized two training events in the north and south of Moldova, during which a total of 37 police officers learnt how to effectively identify and investigate bias-motivated crimes, otherwise known as hate crimes...
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports education programmes for juveniles and women in Serbian correctional institutions
Publishing date: 12 June 2017
The OSCE Mission to Serbia handed over IT equipment and school supplies to the Kruševac Correctional Institution for Juveniles on the occasion of its 70th anniversary and to the Požarevac Prison for Women, on 9 June 2017...
OSCE supports training of cybercrime and digital forensics investigators from Azerbaijan and Georgia on using the Python programming language in investigations
Publishing date: 7 June 2017
A five-day regional training course for 16 cybercrime and digital forensics investigators from Azerbaijan and Georgia focusing on using the Python programming language for the retrieval of digital evidence, started on 5 June 2017 in Tbilisi...
OSCE Programme Office concludes canine training course on explosives detection in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 31 May 2017
An OSCE-supported Canine Explosive Search Training Programme co-organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana and the United States Embassy in Kazakhstan concluded on 24 May 2017 in Astana...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine supports training courses for mobile police teams on combating domestic violence
Publishing date: 31 May 2017
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine supported a five-day training course for officers of pilot mobile police teams on responding to cases of domestic violence from 22 to 26 May 2017 in Dnipro...
Human rights and gender in police internal oversight topic of ODIHR event in Kyiv
Publishing date: 30 May 2017
The practical integration of gender perspectives and human rights-compliant approaches into the work of police internal oversight bodies was the topic of a training seminar organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) for the newly created Human Rights Directorate of the Ukrainian National Police in Kyiv on 29 and 30 May 2017. Participating in the seminar were 24 participants (17 women and 7 men) from both the central and regional offices of the Directorate and representatives of the Interior Ministry.