OSCE hosts discussion on Tajikistan’s national priorities in criminal justice response to cybercrime while upholding human rights

Tajikistan’s national priorities on cybercrime activities was the focus of a virtual discussion held on 28 January 2021. The OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department/Strategic Police Matters Unit (TNTD/SPMU) hosted the event.

National counterparts from the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Police Academy of the Interior Ministry discussed upcoming training modules and reaffirmed their commitment to the OSCE’s Extra-Budgetary project “Capacity Building on Combating Cybercrime in Central Asia”, launched in October 2020.

The project aims to work closely with five OSCE participating States in Central Asia; Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, to enhance the criminal justice’s response to cybercrime, while upholding human rights. It is a collaborative endeavor of the TNTD/SPMU, OSCE Field Operations in Central Asia, law enforcement training institutions and other relevant national authorities.

The TNTD/SPMU is currently in the process of setting up a team of experts from European countries, the Russian Federation and the United States to support the development and organization of training courses scheduled for on-line delivery in 2021.

The initiative is implemented in co-operation with the UNODC Global Programme on Cybercrime and co-ordinated with the Council of Europe. The United States of America is funding the project, which will last until March 2024.