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OSCE expands its support to Ukraine in combating illicit trafficking of weapons, ammunition and explosives

Publishing date: 21 January 2020
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine
What we do: Arms control, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
KYIV, 21 January 2020 – The OSCE today expanded its support to Ukraine in strengthening its response to the illicit trafficking of weapons, ammunition and explosives, with the launch of another two extra-budgetary projects. Some 50 representatives of Ukrainian governmental agencies and the donor community participated in the projects’ first Programme Governance Board meeting today in Kyiv, which marked the beginning of the OSCE’s multi-year assistance to the Ukrainian authorities in this area...

Trust in police goes up, shows OSCE-supported survey presented in Skopje

Publishing date: 20 December 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SKOPJE, 20 December 2019 – According to the OSCE-supported Survey on Public Perception of Democratic Policing presented in Skopje today, over the last two years there has been an increase in the overall level of satisfaction and trust of citizens with the police.

Proactive approach to targeting transnational organized crime focus of OSCE regional workshop in Kyiv

Publishing date: 13 December 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine
What we do: Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
An OSCE regional training workshop dedicated to proactive and intelligence-led approaches to targeting transnational organized crime groups took place on 12 and 13 December 2019 in Kyiv, Ukraine...

OSCE-supported course on security sector governance and reform concludes in Sarajevo

Publishing date: 11 December 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector
The Peace Support Operations Training Centre of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Ministry of Defence and the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the support the Austrian Ministry of Defence, organized a course on security sector governance and reform (SSG/R) processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), which concluded on 11 December 2019...

“Annual Security Review Days 2019” conference concludes in Sarajevo

Publishing date: 29 November 2019
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SARAJEVO, 29 November 2019 – Arms control, violent extremism and radicalization that leads to terrorism, and cyber security were the focus of “Annual Security Review Days 2019”, a three-day conference organized by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), which concluded today in Sarajevo...

OSCE Mission to Serbia announces winners of its 2019 Person of the Year Award

Publishing date: 26 November 2019
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development, Education, Gender equality, Reform and co-operation in the security sector, Rule of law, Youth
BELGRADE, 26 November 2019 – The OSCE Mission to Serbia will present its 2019 Person of the Year Award at a ceremony today in Belgrade. The recipients of this year’s award are: Bojan Cvejić, Web Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief at the daily Danas, Sonja Stonajović Gajić, member of the Managing Board of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCBP) and Aleksandar Ivanović, Director of the Citizen’s Association Monitor from Novi Pazar...

OSCE supports the first penitentiary reform forum of Tajikistan focused on development of prison system

Publishing date: 20 November 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Reform and co-operation in the security sector
The first penitentiary reform forum of Tajikistan, supported by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, was held on 20 November 2019 in Dushanbe and focused on the development of the prison system in Tajikistan...