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Balkans Asset Management Interagency Network defines strategic priorities for asset recovery
Publishing date: 7 June 2024
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Good governance
On 28 and 29 May, the Heads of Asset Management Agencies from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Moldova, North Macedonia and Ukraine gathered in Skopje, North Macedonia for a meeting of the Steering Group of the Balkan Asset Management Interagency Network (BAMIN).
Tourism with a conscience: Albanian stakeholders gather to discuss human rights due diligence in the industry
Publishing date: 7 June 2024
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania, Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
The OSCE has taken a proactive position in addressing human rights abuses within supply chains, particularly focusing on preventing and combating human trafficking and labour exploitation in the tourism sector.
Two years of the OSCE and IOM simulation exercise equipped hundreds of Ukrainian practitioners to fight human trafficking
Publishing date: 7 June 2024
Content type: News
On 27- 30 May 2024, the final simulation-based exercise on combating human trafficking took place in the Lviv region, concluding the comprehensive 2-year training initiative by the OSCE Support Programme for Ukraine and IOM Representation in Ukraine.
OSCE develops next generation of travel document trainers in Tirana
Publishing date: 7 June 2024
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Border management
From 3 to 7 June 2024, the OSCE Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) in close co-operation with the OSCE Presence in Albania, organized a training of trainers course on identifying forged documents and impostors at border crossing points in Tirana, Albania. The course brought together five officers, two women and three men, from the Albanian State Police and the Albanian Border Police.
Moldovan border service officers complete OSCE study visit to Romania
Publishing date: 7 June 2024
Moldovan border and law enforcement officers visited the International Airport Henri Coanda in Otopeni and the International Airport Avram Iancu in Cluj-Napoca during a study visit that took place from 3 to 7 June. Organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department with the support of the Permanent Mission of Romania to the OSCE, the visit helped participants improve their expertise and skills related to airport security.
OSCE Presence, Central Election Commission organize technical workshop on enhancing role of law enforcement bodies in addressing vote-buying and other electoral violations in Albania
Publishing date: 6 June 2024
In view of the 2025 parliamentary elections in Albania, the OSCE Presence and the Central Election Commission (CEC) organized a technical workshop on enhancing the role of law enforcement bodies in addressing vote-buying and other electoral violations, on 6 June 2024. The workshop served as a
OSCE and UNODC deliver first module of training programme on countering the financing of terrorism for Montenegro
Publishing date: 6 June 2024
On 4-6 June 2024, the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, jointly with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), organized a training course in Budva, Montenegro, aimed at equipping national officials with critical skills to counter the financing of terrorism.