News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Legislators and experts work together on human rights-compliant policies for prosecution, rehabilitation and reintegration of foreign terrorist fighters in South-Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 15 October 2021
Legislators and experts discussed strategies and policies for effective and human rights-compliant prosecution, rehabilitation, and reintegration of foreign terrorist fighters and their families in South-Eastern Europe and neighboring countries at a Regional Policy Dialogue held in blended format on 14 and 15 October 2021 in Vienna.
OSCE and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime train-the-trainer course enhances North Macedonia’s capacities to counter terrorist financing
Publishing date: 14 October 2021
The OSCE Transnational Threats Department and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) organized a train-the-trainer course in Vienna from 11 to 13 October 2021, as part of a multiannual training programme focused on strengthening North Macedonia’s capacities in countering terrorist financing.
OSCE and UNODC deliver course in North Macedonia as part of multiannual training programme on countering terrorist financing
Publishing date: 27 September 2021
A three-day training course aimed at further strengthening the capacity of North Macedonia to counter terrorist financing concluded on 23 September 2021.
OSCE hosts expert dialogue on good practices in addressing return of foreign terrorist fighters, including age- and gender-sensitive approaches
Publishing date: 20 September 2021
Good practices in the treatment of foreign terrorist fighter (FTF) returnees, including age and gender-sensitive approaches, was the focus of an expert dialogue organized online by the OSCE’s Action against Terrorism Unit jointly with OSCE field operations in Central Asia from 15 to 17 September 2021.
Albania explores financial disruption options during OSCE-UNODC training course on countering the financing of terrorism
Publishing date: 13 September 2021
A four-day course aimed at further strengthening Albania’s capacity to counter the financing of terrorism concluded on 11 September 2021 in Pogradec, Albania. The course was organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, with the support of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and the OSCE Presence in Albania.
OSCE and UNODC deliver training course in Kyrgyzstan on effective investigations for countering terrorist financing
Publishing date: 30 August 2021
A four-day training course aimed at strengthening the capacity of Kyrgyzstan to counter terrorist financing concluded in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan on 28 August 2021. It was organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek.
OSCE holds interactive workshop on inclusive youth engagement in preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalisation
Publishing date: 16 July 2021
Twenty practitioners from South-Eastern Europe and Central Asia took part in an online interactive OSCE workshop on inclusive youth engagement in preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism (P/CVERLT) held on 15 July 2021.