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OSCE launches expert network to support cross-dimensional policy development
Publishing date: 14 November 2023
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
SKOPJE, 14 November 2023 – The OSCE expert network, which will serve as a point of consultation and dialogue on the three dimensions of the OSCE, was launched in Skopje by the OSCE 2023 Chairpersonship of North Macedonia and the OSCE Secretariat.
Passenger data exchange to counter terrorist travel focus of OSCE-UN seminar
Publishing date: 10 November 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
The OSCE Secretariat Transnational Threats Department and United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) delivered the 7th Passenger Data Exchange Seminar as a back-to back event with the 3rd in-person meeting of the Eastern European Informal Working Group on Passenger Data (EE IWG) on 8-10 November 2023.
OSCE continues training on digital forensics in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 10 November 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
From 6 to 11 November, the OSCE Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) and the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat delivered the second part of an introductory course on digital forensics for law enforcement representatives from Turkmenistan.
Learning by doing- anti-trafficking practitioners across the Baltic Sea region take part in week-long regional simulation training
Publishing date: 10 November 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
More than 50 professionals from five countries participated in a week-long simulation-based training exercise on combating trafficking in human beings in Brühl, Germany this week, marking the first such regional training between the OSCE and the Council of Baltic Sea States.
OSCE and US OPDAT deliver workshop on advanced regional asset recovery in South-Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 9 November 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
The OSCE Transnational Threats Department, the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities and the United States Department of Justice, Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (US OPDAT) facilitated an advanced interactive workshop for prosecutors and judges from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia on recovery of illicit assets, including cross-border organized crime cases. Prosecutors and judges from Kosovo also attended.
OSCE facilitates workshop on confiscated criminal assets management in Moldova
Publishing date: 9 November 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
How do state agencies effectively manage businesses, real estate, securities, and financial instruments seized from organized crime groups? How do they ensure that their value does not depreciate by the end of lengthy court proceedings, and that they do not become a liability to the seizing authority? These are some of the questions tackled during an OSCE-facilitated workshop on the effective management of seized and confiscated criminal assets that took place in Moldova this week.
OSCE training enhances capacities of participating States in international cyber diplomacy
Publishing date: 7 November 2023
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Cyber/ICT Security
On 6 November, the OSCE Transnational Threats Department held an international cyber diplomacy training course focused on building national capacities to engage in international cyber policy deliberations.