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OSCE organizes annual conference for members of Gender Equality Platform in Border Security
Publishing date: 30 November 2022
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Border management, Policing
The importance of a gender-inclusive approach to border security was the focus of a two-day annual conference of the OSCE Gender Equality Platform in Border Security and Management, concluded on 30 November 2022 in Podgorica, Montenegro.
OSCE and UNODC continue efforts toward gender inclusive border security in South Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 16 November 2022
Content type: News
What we do: Border management, Gender equality
Together with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the OSCE Transnational Threats Department's Border Security and Management Unit (TNTD/BSMU) organized a two-day regional training on gender mainstreaming in border and law enforcement agencies that concluded today in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
OSCE supports participating States in the fight against transnational organized crime and corruption through targeted asset recovery training
Publishing date: 11 November 2022
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Border management, Policing
From 7 to 10 November, 21 criminal justice practitioners from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Ukraine gathered in Dubrovnik for a training course on mutual legal assistance and international co-operation in asset recovery.
OSCE and UNOCT host back-to-back conferences to discuss ways to responsibly use passenger data to prevent travel of foreign terrorist fighters
Publishing date: 4 November 2022
The OSCE Transnational Threats Department and the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) organized two events from 1 to 4 November 2022 focused on supporting States in implementing passenger data programmes, enhancing coordination between participating States, international organizations, and private sector companies, and deepening regional cooperative partnerships.
Conference on border security and management, counter-terrorism, to take place in Dushanbe
Publishing date: 14 October 2022
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism
The International High-Level Conference on “International and Regional Border Security and Management Cooperation to Counter Terrorism and Prevent the Movement of Terrorists” will take place in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, from 18 to 19 October 2022.
Combating illicit trafficking of cultural property focus of OSCE developmental workshop in Edinburgh
Publishing date: 22 September 2022
As part of its ongoing multi-year program to combat the illicit trafficking of cultural property, from 12 to 14 September in Edinburgh, Scotland, the OSCE Transnational Threats Department led a workshop comprised of subject matter experts to develop a first of its kind interactive training program for OSCE participating States’ law enforcement and border security personnel.
Management of Seized and Confiscated Vehicles focus of OSCE Supported Online Training
Publishing date: 21 September 2022
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, Transnational Threats Department
What we do: Border management, Policing
On 19 and 20 September, the Balkan Asset Management Interagency Network (BAMIN), supported by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) and the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA), held online training sessions on the management of seized and confiscated vehicles. The training focused on both national and cross-border aspects of managing these vehicles.