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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE-supported human trafficking awareness course to strengthen law enforcement capacities
Publishing date: 20 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
TASHKENT, 20 October 2010- Building the capacity of national law enforcement personnel to tackle human trafficking is the focus of a three-day OSCE-supported workshop that opened in Tashkent today...
OSCE Border Management Staff College strengthens Customs Administration of Afghanistan
Publishing date: 18 October 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management
DUSHANBE, 18 October 2010- First course on risk analysis for officers from the Afghanistan and Tajikistan Customs Administrations from different regions of Afghanistan begins today at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe...
OSCE trains Afghan border police on detecting forged documents
Publishing date: 27 September 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
DUSHANBE, 27 September 2010- A two-week training course for 20 Afghan border police officials to increase operational awareness to detect forged documents and use Interpol databases started today at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe...
OSCE Border Management Staff College launches training programme to strengthen Afghanistan's customs administration
Publishing date: 21 September 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution, Education
DUSHANBE, 21 September 2010- An OSCE- Austrian Customs organized training programme that aims to strengthen Afghanistan's customs administration was launched today...
OSCE trains border officials on protection of human rights
Publishing date: 13 September 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Border management, Human rights, Education, Rule of law
DUSHANBE, 13 September 2010- A five-day training on human rights and border control organized by the OSCE Border Management Staff College (BMSC) and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) started in Dushanbe today...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports international customs standards in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 13 September 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Border management, Education
BISHKEK, 13 September 2010- A four-week training course for 38 newly recruited customs officers in Kyrgyzstan, organized by the State Customs Service of Kyrgyzstan and the OSCE Centre's Customs Training Development Project, started in Bishkek today...
OSCE Office in Minsk boosts co-operation with Belarus on border management
Publishing date: 14 July 2010
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Border management
MINSK, 14 July 2010- Ambassador Benedikt Haller, the Head of the OSCE Office, and Major-General Andrej Gorulko, the First Deputy Chairman of the State Border Committee of Belarus, signed a memorandum on a new border security and management initiative...