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OSCE Secretary General discusses tackling organized crime and drugs trafficking with UNODC
Publishing date: 28 December 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
Meeting with the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Yury Fedotov, on 22 December 2011 in Vienna, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier discussed the prospects for closer co-operation to tackle organized crime and drugs trafficking...
OSCE supports discussion on fight against terrorism financing
Publishing date: 12 December 2011
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
The OSCE, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime the Romanian Foreign Ministry have organized on 13 and 14 December 2011 a workshop in Bucharest on preventing and fighting terrorism financing...
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 Centre in Bishkek trains border officials on travel document security
Publishing date: 11 November 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism
NOVOPOKROVKA, Kyrgyzstan, 11 November 2011- An OSCE-sponsored training course on travel document security was completed in the Novopokrovka Border Troops Training Centre near Bishkek today...
Tackling cybercrime focus of OSCE conference in Baku
Publishing date: 6 October 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Countering terrorism, Policing
BAKU, 6 October 2011 – A two-day OSCE-supported conference on tackling cybercrime opened in Baku today...
OSCE contributes to Kyrgyzstan’s efforts in preventing extremism and radicalization through community policing
Publishing date: 4 October 2011
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism, Policing
BISHKEK, 4 October 2011 – A two-day workshop on how community policing can help counter violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism, organized by the OSCE Secretariat and the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, in co-operation with Kyrgyzstan’s Interior Ministry, started today in Bishkek...
Early warning, regional mechanisms key to countering terrorist threat, OSCE anti-terrorism head tells UN committee
Publishing date: 28 September 2011
UNITED NATIONS, 28 September 2011 – Regional organizations have a critical role in putting global strategies to fight terrorism into practice, said Raphael Perl, the Head on Anti-Terrorism Issues at the OSCE Secretariat, at a special meeting of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee today...