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OSCE and FMA Host Seminar to Strengthen Risk Management in Kazakhstan's Gambling Sector
Publishing date: 20 August 2024
On August 19-20, 2024, the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, in collaboration with the Financial Monitoring Agency (FMA), held a training seminar in Astana focused on strengthening risk management within the gambling and lottery sectors.
OSCE strengthens capacity of Ukraine’s Border Guard Service to counter criminal threats
Publishing date: 16 August 2024
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Arms control, Conflict prevention and resolution
The OSCE enhanced the knowledge and practical skills of 20 criminal analysis officers from the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (SBGS) by providing a training on the use of specialized analytical software in investigating criminal threats. The event took place from 13 to 15 August in Kyiv.
OSCE trains lawyers, psychologists, and government representatives in Tajikistan on preventing domestic violence
Publishing date: 16 August 2024
The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe organized a five-day training course for lawyers, psychologists from the OSCE-supported Women’s Resource Centres (WRCs), and government representatives on preventing domestic violence and protecting its victims.
Breaking down stereotypes and promoting gender equality focus of OSCE-supported publication
Publishing date: 16 August 2024
Content type: News
Helping Ukrainian media professionals ensure their stories dispel stereotypes, uphold the equality of women and men, and contribute to better protection of their rights is at the heart of a new publication launched in Kyiv on 14 August. “Gender Equality Policy in the Media Content”, was developed by the NGO, Women in Media, in close partnership with the Governmental Representative for Gender Equality and the Commission on Journalism Ethics, a self-regulating body for journalists and editorial boards in Ukraine, with assistance provided by the OSCE Secretariat Extra-budgetary Support Programme for Ukraine (SPU).
OSCE facilitates the signing of memorandum of understanding on tracing, detection and management of illegal assets between agencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ukraine
Publishing date: 16 August 2024
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
On 15 August 2024, the Seized Property Management Agency of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FAZUOI) and the National Agency of Ukraine for the Detection, Tracing and Management of Assets Derived from Corruption and Other Crimes (ARMA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on strengthening their co-operation in the fight against organized crime and corruption through tracing, detection and management of illegal assets.
OSCE supports summer school on anti-corruption for youth
Publishing date: 16 August 2024
The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe (POiD) supported the Anti-Corruption Summer School for Youth in Yos resort, Tajikistan, from 12 to 16 August 2024. The event was organized in collaboration with the Agency for State Financial Control and Fight against Corruption and Coalition of Civil Society Organizations for Transparency and Anti-Corruption.
OSCE organizes summer rehabilitation workshop for landmine/explosive remnants of war survivors
Publishing date: 15 August 2024