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Addressing security threats to inland transport focus of OSCE meeting
Publishing date: 12 December 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Economic activities, Environmental activities
VIENNA, 12 December 2011 – Experts from 20 countries and international organizations working in the OSCE region met today in Vienna to discuss aspects of inland transport security...
OSCE organizes expert meeting on preventing the terrorist radicalization of women
Publishing date: 12 December 2011
Content type: Press release
What we do: Countering terrorism, Gender equality
VIENNA, 12 December 2011 – The dynamics behind the terrorist radicalization of women and ways to prevent it from happening was the focus of a meeting organized by the OSCE today for experts from academia, civil society, the media and OSCE participating States...
OSCE, Council of Europe hold regional seminar on local government reform, economic governance and financial management
Publishing date: 9 December 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Economic activities, Good governance
The Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities and the Council of Europe’s Centre of Expertise for Local Government Reform held a two-day regional seminar on promoting local government reform, good economic governance and sound financial management at the local level on 7 and 8 December 2011...
OSCE Secretary General hosts meeting to promote co-ordinated response to developments in southern Mediterranean
Publishing date: 6 December 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
VILNIUS, 6 December 2011 – A meeting of international and regional organizations to promote closer co-ordination of responses to changes in the southern Mediterranean was held by OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs B. Lynn Pascoe in Vilnius today...
OSCE Secretary General welcomes multi-country think tank initiative
Publishing date: 6 December 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier welcomed a joint research initiative of France, Germany, Poland and Russia announced at the start of the OSCE Ministerial Council on 6 December 2011...
OSCE ready to strengthen engagement with Afghanistan as part of international effort, says OSCE Secretary General at Bonn Conference
Publishing date: 5 December 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
BONN, Germany, 5 December 2011 – The OSCE seeks to intensify its support for international and regional efforts to promote long-term security and stability in Afghanistan, said OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier at the International Afghanistan Conference in Bonn today...
States need to co-operate better to support social inclusion of trafficked persons, says OSCE Special Representative
Publishing date: 1 December 2011
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, addressed an expert seminar organized by the Polish Presidency of the European Union in Warsaw on 30 November 2011 on trafficking in human beings in the EU and Eastern Partnership countries...