News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE trains border officials in Tajikistan on protecting human rights while countering terrorism
Publishing date: 31 March 2012
Senior border officials from four OSCE participating states completed a five-day training course in Dushanbe on 31 March 2012. The course focused on human rights-based approach to countering terrorist threats along and at borders...
OSCE Centre in Astana helps build capacity to combat money laundering
Publishing date: 26 March 2012
ASTANA, 26 March 2012- A four-day training course for Kazakhstani government officials on international mechanisms and tools to combat money laundering and terrorism financing began in Astana today...
OSCE supports money-laundering risk assessment in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 13 March 2012
A three-day workshop on assessing the risk of money laundering started in Bishkek on 13 March 2012. The event was organized by the OSCE, the World Bank and the UNODC in co-operation with Kyrgyzstan’s State Financial Intelligence Service...
OSCE highlights need to involve women in efforts to counter violent extremism, terrorist radicalization
Publishing date: 12 March 2012
VIENNA, 12 MARCH 2012 – Ways of empowering women in countering violent extremism and radicalization that leads to terrorism is the focus of a two-day expert meeting organized by the OSCE today in Vienna...
OSCE meeting on anti-money laundering and countering terrorism in Vienna
Publishing date: 6 February 2012
VIENNA, 6 February 2012 – The OSCE’s practical contribution to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism, and defining a strategic way forward in this area are the focus of a meeting between representatives from 56 countries which started in Vienna today...
New OSCE department for transnational threats established
Publishing date: 12 January 2012
With the beginning of 2012, a new department has been established that will improve the OSCE’s work on combating transnational threats (TNT), OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier announced on 10 January 2012...
OSCE Secretary General discusses tackling organized crime and drugs trafficking with UNODC
Publishing date: 28 December 2011
Meeting with the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Yury Fedotov, on 22 December 2011 in Vienna, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier discussed the prospects for closer co-operation to tackle organized crime and drugs trafficking...