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OSCE promotes classification system for cyber incidents to strengthen cyber security in Ukraine
Publishing date: 30 January 2025
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Cyber/ICT Security
The OSCE Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) organized a workshop on cyber incident classification for 15 cyber security policy and technical experts from Ukraine, including two women and 13 men. The workshop, held on 29 January, focused on the development and implementation of a national cyber incident classification system, a common scheme for understanding and defining what a cyber incident is, that ensures consistency in crisis management tools and plans.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Valtonen concludes visit to Ukraine, reiterates OSCE’s continued support as country struggles with stark impacts of Russia’s war
Publishing date: 8 January 2025
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairpersonship
KYIV, 8 January 2025- The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Finland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Elina Valtonen, completed her first visit to Ukraine as the OSCE’s Chair.
OSCE supports Ukraine in preventing and combating illicit trafficking of weapons, ammunition and explosives
Publishing date: 13 December 2024
On 11 December, over 100 representatives of Ukrainian authorities, international organizations, diplomatic missions and civil society participated in the Second National Conference on Preventing and Combating Illicit Trafficking of Weapons, Ammunition and Explosives (WAE) in Kyiv.
OSCE trains Ukrainian rescuers to provide gender-responsive humanitarian response
Publishing date: 12 December 2024
From 2 to 7 December 2024, two in-person workshops on women’s leadership in humanitarian response were held in Lviv, Ukraine. The workshops, organized by the OSCE Gender Issues Programme, through its WIN Project, aimed at equipping 54 participants from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SESU) with tools to expand their leadership roles during and after the ongoing war.
OSCE helps Ukraine to adapt youth policies to the urgent challenges of war
Publishing date: 2 December 2024
Content type: News
What we do: Youth
Two OSCE-supported surveys on the role of youth organizations in Ukraine in times of war were presented at the Youth Work Forum "United by the Light", held from 28 November to 1 December 2024 in Kyiv. The event, organized in partnership with the OSCE Support Programme for Ukraine, gathered around 300 youth representatives from across the country to discuss current challenges and exchange best practices.
Joint statement of the OSCE Troika on the 1000th day since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Publishing date: 19 November 2024
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairpersonship, Troika
VIENNA, 19 November 2024 — Today, the OSCE Troika- Malta, North Macedonia and Finland- made the following statement:
OSCE helps Ukraine protect the rights of people in pre-trial detention
Publishing date: 18 October 2024
Content type: News
With the outbreak of the full-scale war, the judicial system in Ukraine faced unprecedented challenges, especially in communities adjacent to a frontline where courts ceased to operate. In response, an ad hoc procedure was introduced for the duration of the war which stipulates the suspension of periodic judicial reviews of detention legality and its automatic prolongation.