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OSCE supports 6th Meeting of Permanent Conference of Organized Crime Prosecutors
Publishing date: 29 April 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Policing
Over 30 participants took part in the sixth meeting of the Permanent Conference of Organized Crime Prosecutors (PCOCP) organized online by the OSCE Secretariat in collaboration with the OSCE Mission to Serbia, on 27 April 2021.
OSCE supports Meeting of Executive Board of Permanent Conference of Prosecutors
Publishing date: 23 February 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, OSCE Secretary General, Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Policing
The programmatic activities for 2021 and a decision on the next host country for its Secretariat were the focus of the meeting of the Executive Board of the Permanent Conference of Organized Crime Prosecutors (PCOCP) held on 23 February 2021.
OSCE Mission to Serbia and EU Delegation assist Serbian courts in strengthening victim and witness support system
Publishing date: 19 February 2021
BELGRADE, 19 February 2021 – On the occasion of the European Day for Victims of Crime marked on 22 February, the OSCE Mission to Serbia and the EU Delegation to Serbia handed over videoconferencing equipment to five courts across the country, with the aim to strengthen the national victim and witness support system. The donation is part of a project financed by the European Union for the value of 1.5 million euro.
Jan Braathu takes up duties as Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia
Publishing date: 6 January 2021
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
BELGRADE, 5 January 2021 – Jan Braathu, a Norwegian career diplomat of ambassador rank, assumed his duties as Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia on 1 January 2021.
OSCE supports Permanent Conference of Organized Crime Prosecutors in assessing impact of COVID-19 on prosecutors’ work
Publishing date: 20 November 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Economic activities, Policing, Rule of law
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work of prosecutors’ offices was the focus of the fifth meeting of the Executive Board of the Permanent Conference of Organized Crime Prosecutors (PCOCP) on 12 November 2020. The meeting was held online with the support of the OSCE Mission to Serbia...
Stronger collective efforts needed to protect journalists against growing threats, concludes seventh OSCE South-East Europe Media Conference
Publishing date: 18 September 2020
Content type: Press release
What we do: Media freedom and development
VIENNA/BELGRADE, 18 September 2020 – The seventh South-East Europe Media Conference entitled “The New Frontline: Working together to Foster Media Freedom”, organized jointly by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM) and the OSCE Mission to Serbia, in collaboration with OSCE field operations from South-East Europe, concluded today...
OSCE organizes online discussion on exploitation of COVID-19 pandemic by organized crime groups
Publishing date: 9 July 2020
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Economic activities, Good governance
The OSCE Transnational Threats Department (TNTD), the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) and the OSCE Mission to Serbia organized a webinar on the exploitation of the COVID-19 pandemic by organized crime groups on 8 July 2020.