News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE trains border management professionals in applying democratic security sector governance to border security management
Publishing date: 4 September 2019
BRATISLAVA, 4 September 2019 –A three-day advanced training course exploring the connection between security sector governance and reform (SSG/R) and border security management, hosted by the Slovak OSCE Chairmanship, concluded today.
OSCE and UNECE join forces on strengthening security of inland freight routes
Publishing date: 4 September 2019
GENEVA, Switzerland, 4 September 2019 –The wide array of regionally and internationally available security standards, instruments, technologies and methodologies at the disposal of governments to address the critical security risks faced by their inland transport systems was the focus of a joint OSCE-UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Inland Transport Security Discussion Forum on Strengthening Security on Inland Freight Routes that ended today in Geneva...
Workshop on combating illicit cross-border trafficking in cultural property in the region of the OSCE Asian partners held in Mongolia
Publishing date: 2 September 2019
A five-day awareness raising workshop on combating illicit cross-border trafficking in cultural property concluded on 30 August 2019 in Ulaanbaatar. More than 40 participants from the OSCE Asian Partners for Co-operation Mongolia, Japan, South Korea and Thailand took part in the event. They represented police, border and customs services, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports as well as other entities such as anti-corruption agencies and academia.
Mainstreaming gender in border security focus of OSCE-hosted training course in Vienna
Publishing date: 28 August 2019
An interactive three-day Training-of-Trainers (ToT) course on mainstreaming gender in border security, organized by the OSCE’s Border Security and Management Unit of the Transnational Threats Department, concluded on 28 August 2019 in Vienna...
Weekly Update from the OSCE Observer Mission at Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk based on information as of 13 August 2019
Publishing date: 13 August 2019
Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy, Russian Federation. The Observer Mission (OM) continues to operate 24/7 at both Border Crossing Points (BCPs). The overall number of border crossings by persons increased at both BCPs compared to the previous week.
OSCE continues to train border guards on document security in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 2 August 2019
A five-day second stage of the OSCE-supported train-the-trainer course on detecting forged travel documents and identification techniques for 20 border service officers concluded in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 2 August 2019...
Cross-border challenges in identification of potential foreign terrorists fighters focus of advanced OSCE mobile training team train-the-trainer course in Istanbul
Publishing date: 2 July 2019
An advanced train-the-trainer course on the identification of potential foreign terrorists fighters (FTFs) at the borders was organized by the Transnational Threats Department’s Border Security and Management Unit with support of the Government of Turkey for six newly selected border officers from Greece, Kyrgyzstan, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Turkey, from 24 to 29 June 2019 in Istanbul...