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OSCE holds seminar on confiscation and re-use of criminal assets
Publishing date: 1 June 2022
Content type: News
Where we are: Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, Transnational Threats Department
What we do: Economic activities, Policing
Following national awareness raising workshops on social re-use of confiscated assets in 2020 and 2021, government officials and civil society representatives from South-Eastern Europe gathered in Rome on 30 and 31 May for a seminar on the re-use, including re-use for social purposes, of criminal assets.
OSCE supports capacity-building training on social re-use of confiscated assets in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 19 May 2022
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department
What we do: Economic activities, Policing, Rule of law
The social re-use of confiscated assets was the focus of three training events held by the OSCE and the Center for Civil Society Promotion (CPCD) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The events were held on May 13 (Sarajevo), 16 (Tuzla) and 17 (Banja Luka). The 80 participants from civil society organizations had the opportunity to reflect on how they can contribute to the fight against organized crime and corruption and discussed which mechanisms civil society can effectively use to implement projects on social re-use.
OSCE supports Kyrgyzstan in developing police reform
Publishing date: 18 May 2022
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
The OSCE has concluded a five-day visit to Kyrgyzstan to assess the ongoing police development and reform. The visit was a joint effort from the OSCE Transnational Threats Department (TNTD), the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), and the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek.
OSCE-supported training course for Armenian police focuses on dialogue policing
Publishing date: 12 May 2022
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
A two-week training course for 20 mid-level Armenian police officers commenced on 29 April at the Police Education Complex in Yerevan.
OSCE organizes workshops on youth crime and drug use prevention in Nur-Sultan
Publishing date: 12 April 2022
On 17 March, and 11 and 12 April, the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities and the OSCE Transnational Threats Department together with the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, co-organized workshops on youth crime and drug use prevention in Nur-Sultan. The focus of the workshops was cross-agency co-operation through the exchange of best practices and lessons learned in this specific area.
Confiscation of proceeds of crime focus of OSCE-organized training course for prosecutors in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 8 April 2022
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
The OSCE Transnational Threats Department and the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, in co-operation with the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Agency for the Management of Seized Asset of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, organized a two-day training course on extended confiscation of proceeds of crime in Sarajevo on 5 and 6 of April.
OSCE holds workshop on development of training curriculum for combating gender-based violence in South-Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 28 March 2022
On 24 March 2022, the OSCE organized an online regional workshop on developing a training curriculum for law enforcement and judiciary on gender-based violence. The curriculum will be delivered during a regional train-the-trainers course, as part of the project Enhancing Criminal Justice Capacities for Combating Gender-based Violence in South-Eastern Europe (2021-2024). Tailored workshops to further adapt the curriculum to the national contexts will be organized for each project beneficiary country: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia.