News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Senior Gender Adviser visits Russian Federation
Publishing date: 7 August 2019
The OSCE Senior Adviser on Gender Issues, Amarsanaa Darisuren, visited the Russian Federation from 29 to 31 July 2019 with the aim of further enhancing links and co-operation in the field of gender equality. She held discussions with representatives from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Labour and Social Protection, and Higher Education and Science, as well as the Office of the Prosecutor General and the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation. She also met with the Chair of the Women’s Union of Russia and the Chair of the national NGO Business Women of Russia...
OSCE supports training seminar on anti-money laundering and combating financing of terrorism in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 2 August 2019
The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan supported a two-day seminar on anti- money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) on 1 and 2 August 2019 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
President Tsereteli appoints new Co-Chairs of OSCE PA’s Ad Hoc Committee on Countering Terrorism
Publishing date: 1 August 2019
COPENHAGEN, 1 August 2019 – Norwegian parliamentarian Abid Raja has been appointed as Chair of the OSCE PA’s Ad Hoc Committee on Countering Terrorism (CCT) and will take up his responsibilities immediately. OSCE PA President George Tsereteli (MP, Georgia) made the appointment Monday and also this week appointed Lisa Chambers (MP, Ireland) as Co-Chair of the CCT...
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.