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ODIHR opens election observation mission in Albania
Publishing date: 2 April 2025
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
TIRANA, 2 April 2025- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today opened an election observation mission for the 11 May parliamentary elections in Albania, following an official invitation from the national authorities.
OSCE leaders and anti-trafficking experts commit to tripling down on efforts to end child trafficking
Publishing date: 2 April 2025
Content type: Press release
Where we are: Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
VIENNA, 2 April 2025 – At the 25th Conference of the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons, which concluded in Vienna on Tuesday, OSCE leaders and anti-trafficking experts called on the 57 OSCE participating States to turn their commitments into tangible actions and triple down on efforts in the fight against child trafficking.
Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Discrimination appointed
Publishing date: 1 April 2025
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairpersonship
HELSINKI, 1 April 2025 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs Elina Valtonen has appointed Wolfgang Palaver as Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Discrimination.
Ensuring a child-centred approach to protect and support child victims of human trafficking focus of ODIHR’s survivor-led event
Publishing date: 1 April 2025
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Youth
The need to prioritize the welfare, wellbeing and empowerment of young survivors of human trafficking was the focus of discussions at an event organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and led by International Survivors of Trafficking Advisory Council (ISTAC) on the margins of the 25th Conference of the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons.
OSCE concludes eighth regional workshop on combating illicit trafficking in cultural property
Publishing date: 28 March 2025
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Border management
The OSCE Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland, held the eighth in a series of operation training workshops on combating illicit trafficking of art, antiquities and cultural property in Wroclaw, Poland, from 24 to 28 March 2025.
Statement by the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian Settlement Process on the Joint Control Commission’s resumption of signing Protocols
Publishing date: 28 March 2025
Content type: Press statement
Where we are: OSCE Chairpersonship, OSCE Mission to Moldova
HELSINKI/CHISINAU, 28 MARCH 2025- The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian Settlement Process, Ambassador Thomas Lenk made the following statement after the Joint Control Commission (JCC) Co-Chairs on 27 March confirmed the removal of all checkpoints established by Tiraspol in the Security Zone in 2022 and approved the relevant protocols from the previous JCC meetings, pending from 2022:
OSCE supports exchange on combating corruption and virtual assets between practitioners from Italy, Moldova and Romania
Publishing date: 28 March 2025
Content type: News
What we do: Economic activities
The OSCE organized a study visit that brought together Italian, Moldovan and Romanian anti-corruption practitioners in Bucharest, Romania, from 26 to 28 March. The participants shared good practices in combating corruption and the misuse of virtual assets, highlighting the significance of interinstitutional and international co-operation in this area.