News and press releases

A new manual for law enforcement officers on protecting and respecting human rights during counter-terrorism investigations was launched by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department/Strategic Police Matters Unit in Vienna on 29 November 2013...

A roundtable meeting on hindering terrorists’ access to explosives through better control of explosive chemical precursors of legal use by industry and agriculture took place in Ulaanbaatar on 29 November 2013 with OSCE support, and financial assistance from the Australian government...

ASTANA, 26 November 2013 – The role of legal institutions, civil society and religious leaders in preventing and countering violent extremism and radicalization that lead to terrorism was the topic of an OSCE-supported international conference which took place today in Astana...

ASTANA, 5 November 2013- A two-day training seminar for prosecutors on countering cybercrime began today in Astana. The course, which is led by national and international experts, focuses on global issues related to cybercrime, in particular the increasing misuse of advanced computer systems by various criminal groups...

A project organised jointly by the OSCE, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the International Organization for Migration, to map the links between irregular migration, migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings along the East Mediterranean Migration Route, began with a seminar in Vienna on 30 and 31 October 2013.

LUXEMBOURG, 21 October 2013 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara today condemned a terrorist attack on a bus in the city of Volgograd in the Russian Federation...

YEREVAN, 15 October 2013 – A roundtable meeting on hindering terrorists’ access to explosives through better control over the substances took place in Yerevan today with OSCE support...