News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE PA President Muttonen fills leadership positions in counter-terrorism and migration committees, appoints new Mediterranean envoy
Publishing date: 10 July 2017
COPENHAGEN, 10 July 2017 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Christine Muttonen (Austria) made a number of appointments today to fill key roles in advancing the Assembly’s work on counter-terrorism, migration and Mediterranean issues...
Head of OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe meets Tajikistan’s Foreign Minister
Publishing date: 7 July 2017
DUSHANBE, 7 July 2017 – Ambassador Tuula Yrjölä, Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, met Tajikistan’s Foreign Minister Aslov Sirodjidin Muhridinovich in Dushanbe today. She gave an update on the transition of the “OSCE Office in Tajikistan” into the “OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe”, which came into effect on 1 July 2017, as mandated by the OSCE Permanent Council Decision 1251...
Criminal justice responses to terrorism focus of OSCE seminar in Prishtinë/Priština
Publishing date: 6 July 2017
A two-day seminar on strengthening rule of law-compliant criminal justice responses to terrorism, which brought together over 30 practitioners from the judiciary, law enforcement agencies, and prison management, concluded on 6 July 2017 in Prishtinë/Priština...
OSCE organizes first seminar on community-policing approaches to countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism in Mongolia
Publishing date: 6 July 2017
ULAANBAATAR, 6 July 2017- A two-day national seminar on a community-policing approach to countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism (VERLT), organized by the OSCE, concluded today in Ulaanbaatar. The seminar was the first of its kind to be held in Mongolia...
OSCE trains Kazakhstan’s border service officers in risk profiling
Publishing date: 30 June 2017
The fifth in a series of OSCE-supported five-day training courses on risk profiling at border checkpoints to assist sixteen officers of the Border Service of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee in countering transnational threats by using risk profiling at border checkpoints concluded in Aktobe, Kazakhstan on 30 June 2017...
Spain’s San Pablo CEU University wins the second joint Facebook and OSCE #UnitedCVE Peer to Peer competition
Publishing date: 27 June 2017
VIENNA, 27 June 2017- A team of students from the San Pablo CEU University of Spain was today awarded the first prize in a regional competition organized by the OSCE United in Countering Violent Extremism (#UnitedCVE) campaign as part of the Peer to Peer (P2P): Facebook Global Digital Challenge...
OSCE and UNODC train the trainers in countering terrorist financing in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 23 June 2017
Strengthening the capacity of government officials from Kyrgyzstan to counter terrorist financing is the aim of a three-day train-the-trainers course organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's Global Programme against Money Laundering from 23 to 25 June 2017 in Vienna...