News and press releases

At the 35th session of Parliamentary Gender Equality Committee, held on 28 October, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro presented to MPs and representatives of the public administration instruments developed to support the institution in ensuring the laws are gender-mainstreamed and provide for equal treatment of all citizens.

A second specialized training on operative essentials for anti-corruption officers was held in Yerevan from 25 to 28 October 2022. The training, which focused on the effective investigation of corruption, was hosted by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) with the support of the Anti-Corruption Committee of Armenia (ACC).

On 20 October 2022, the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department held a national workshop dedicated to preparing a curriculum for law enforcement on Gender-based Violence (GBV) in Tirana. This was accomplished with the assistance of the OSCE Presence in Albania and the support of the Albanian State Police.

As part of continuous support to media professionalism, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro presented sets of mobile journalism equipment to Media Studies and Journalism Department of the Faculty of Political Science, University of Montenegro, on 28 October. A three-day training course for journalism students in November will put the donation in use.

PODGORICA, 27 October 2022- Independent, diverse and quality public-interest journalism and widespread media-literacy are the best antidote to disinformation. These were some of the conclusions from a regional conference on Media and Digital Literacy and Disinformation, held by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro and the Agency of Electronic Media today.

Some thirty students and teachers of the Turkmen State Energy Institute in Mary participated in an OSCE-organized seminar on green energy diplomacy that took place on 26 and 27 October 2022. The OSCE Centre in Ashgabat organized the two-day event to discuss various aspects of renewable energy

From 24 to 27 October, the OSCE Transnational Threats Department organized a course on requesting electronic evidence across borders in Tashkent, in close co-operation with the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan and the Academy of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan.