News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Programme Office supports live exercise to counter drug-related money laundering in Nur-Sultan
Publishing date: 26 July 2019
An OSCE-organized week-long simulation exercise on countering drug-related money laundering concluded on 26 July 2019 in Koschi, near Nur-Sultan. It took place at the Law Enforcement Agencies Academy under the General Prosecutor’s Office.
OSCE Programme Office supports workshop to rehabilitate prisoners convicted of violent extremist crimes in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 26 July 2019
An OSCE-supported workshop on facilitating the rehabilitation of prisoners convicted of violent extremism, including returning Foreign Terrorist Fighters, through risk assessments and effective classification measures concluded on 26 July 2019 in Nur-Sultan.
Strengthening rule of law-compliant criminal justice responses to terrorism focus of OSCE training seminar in Ashgabat
Publishing date: 25 July 2019
Strengthening rule of law-compliant criminal justice responses to terrorism was the aim of a two-day seminar for over 30 Turkmen practitioners from relevant government agencies and the bar association which concluded on 25 July 2019 in Ashgabat...
OSCE and UNODC train Kazakhstan trainers on countering terrorist financing
Publishing date: 23 July 2019
Strengthening the capacity of Kazakhstan to counter terrorist financing was the aim of a two-day train-the-trainers course held at the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna on 22 and 23 July 2019. The event was organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan, and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's Global Programme against Money Laundering.
Uzbek trainers trained in countering terrorist financing by OSCE and UN Office on Drugs and Crime
Publishing date: 22 July 2019
A three-day train-the-trainer course on countering terrorist financing was organized in Vienna for Uzbek participants from 17 to 19 July 2019 by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, in co-operation with the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's Global Programme against Money Laundering (UNODC/GPML)...
OSCE trains local government representatives, teachers and parents in Tajikistan on preventing violent extremism among youth
Publishing date: 18 July 2019
The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe trained some 320 representatives of local governments, teachers, parents from migrant families and people whose relatives have travelled to conflict zones as foreign terrorist fighters as part of a whole-of-society approach to tackling violent extremism and terrorist radicalization among youth in Tajikistan. The training courses were conducted in 12 districts of the Sughd and Khatlon regions from 24 June to 18 July 2019...
OSCE PA’s Voridis and Chambers address UN Security Council on parliamentary counter-terrorism efforts
Publishing date: 3 July 2019
NEW YORK, 2 July 2019 – In a briefing on the counter-terrorism work of parliamentarians before the United Nations Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Makis Voridis and Lisa Chambers spoke about the role played by the Assembly in this field and ways to further the engagement of parliamentarians in countering terrorism...