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Training strengthens criminal justice responses to violence against women and girls in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 2 May 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Gender equality, Policing
From 24 to 28 April 2023, gender-responsive policing of violence against women and girls (VAWG) was the focus of a national specialized training course organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) in co-ordination with the OSCE Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo
Advisory and Co-ordination Board for OSCE project on combating gender-based violence in South-Eastern Europe meets
Publishing date: 6 April 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Gender equality
On 4 April 2023, the meeting of the Advisory and Co-ordination Board established in 2021 as part of the OSCE project “Enhancing Criminal Justice Capacities for Combating Gender-based Violence in South-Eastern Europe” took place.
OSCE presents research on the connection between gender equality and national minorities
Publishing date: 28 March 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Gender equality
On 28 March, OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid and High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Kairat Abdrakhmanov presented the findings of the research on the intersectionality of gender and national minorities.
Digital technology must empower women and address their needs, say OSCE leaders on International Women’s Day
Publishing date: 8 March 2023
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Gender equality
SKOPJE/VIENNA/WARSAW, 8 March 2023 – Marking International Women’s Day, OSCE leaders urged further action to explore and embrace innovation and digital technology to eliminate all forms of gender inequality.
Two new OSCE regional networks to amplify women’s work on combatting violent extremism and radicalization that leads to terrorism in Central Asia and South-Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 1 March 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism, Gender equality
Women professionals in Central Asia and South-Eastern Europe now have two new regional networks for generating new ideas, learning from each other and amplifying their work on preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism (P/CVERLT).
OSCE brings together women activists from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ukraine to discuss effective strategies to combat violence against women and girls in conflict and post-conflict settings
Publishing date: 2 February 2023
From 31 January to 2 February, 20 women human rights activists from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ukraine, and renowned international experts, gathered in Vienna to provide concrete recommendations for enhancing protection and response to violence against women and girls in conflict and post-conflict settings.
OSCE Special Representative and Senior Gender Adviser visit Moldova
Publishing date: 27 January 2023
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Gender equality
CHISINAU, 27 January 2023 – Strengthening the effective and meaningful participation of women in peace processes, advancing gender equality, fighting gender-based violence and protecting the rights of women and girls was at the centre of a two-day visit to Chisinau by Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office on Gender, Liliana Palihovici, and OSCE Senior Adviser on Gender Issues, Lara Scarpitta.