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Bulgaria early parliamentary elections 2024: ODIHR election observation mission final report
Publishing date: 5 September 2024
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
Bulgaria’s 2024 early parliamentary elections were competitive, with fundamental freedoms respected and legislation providing an adequate framework to hold democratic elections. Preparations for election day were smooth, but various malpractices limited voters’ access to the electoral process and
OSCE Presence in Albania organizes workshop on illicit firearms trafficking
Publishing date: 4 September 2024
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
On 3 and 4 of September 2024, the OSCE Presence in Albania organized a two-day workshop on illicit firearms trafficking, involving members of the Trafficking Investigation Sectors of the Albanian State Police (ASP) at both the central and local levels, prosecutors from the General Prosecution
Call for Participants: Youth Engagement and Empowerment to Counter Radicalization and Violent Extremism Training
Publishing date: 4 September 2024
The OSCE Mission to Skopje is pleased to announce the launch of a call for participants for the Youth Engagement and Empowerment to Counter Radicalization and Violent Extremism Training. This program, to be held from 7 to 10 October 2024 at Hotel Romantique in Veles, is an initiative aimed at
Building capacities of criminal justice actors in Bosnia and Herzegovina to combat trafficking in human beings through victim-centred approaches
Publishing date: 4 September 2024
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina prosecutors and other criminal justice professionals concluded the XVII Annual Prosecutorial Symposium, convened from 1 to 4 September in Neum. The Symposium serves as a platform for training, debating criminal justice issues, and the exchange of best practices.
Empowering future leaders: OSCE inaugurates second edition of women’s renewable energy scholarship
Publishing date: 4 September 2024
Content type: News
What we do: Environmental activities
On 2 September, the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities inaugurated the second edition of the OSCE Scholarship Master’s Program for Young Women in Renewable Energy at the Kazakh-German University (DKU) in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Chair-in-Office Ian Borg takes measures to ensure Organizational continuity amidst leadership transition
Publishing date: 3 September 2024
Content type: Press release
VALLETTA/VIENNA 03 September 2024 – Today, the OSCE Chair-in-Office, Malta's Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade Ian Borg, informed the 57 participating States that, in the absence of a consensus on the appointment of a new OSCE leadership, he has taken immediate action to ensure the uninterrupted functioning of the Organization during this transitional period.
The new school year begins!
Publishing date: 2 September 2024
Statement of Ambassador Brian Aggeler, Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the beginning of the 2024/2025 school year