News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE in co-operation with UNODC holds regional workshop in Belgrade for high-level policymakers on preventing youth crime and violence
Publishing date: 17 December 2018
How to prevent crime and violence committed by young people by encouraging their engagement in developing life skills, sports and education was explored at a workshop for around 30 high-level policymakers from South-East Europe organized in Belgrade on 17 December 2018 by the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department in co-operation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the OSCE Mission to Serbia...
Role of proactive, intelligence- and information-led policing in tackling serious and organized crime explored at OSCE regional workshop in Minsk
Publishing date: 13 December 2018
Way in which proactive and intelligence and/or information-led policing approaches can enhance the fight against serious and organized crime were explored at a regional workshop for law enforcement representatives of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova and the Russian Federation conducted by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department’s Strategic Police Matters Unit in Minsk on 13 December 2018...
OSCE trains police instructors on risk profiling techniques in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 13 December 2018
An OSCE-supported three-day train-the-trainer course for law enforcement personnel on risk profiling techniques, for use when developing a security system to prevent criminal acts during large-scale events, concluded in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, on 13 December 2018...
Guidelines on general principles regarding non-punishment provision of victims of trafficking presented at OSCE-supported event in Podgorica
Publishing date: 12 December 2018
Guidelines on general principles regarding non-punishment provisions for victims of trafficking in human beings (THB) were presented to Montenegrin police officers, state prosecutors and judges on 12 December 2018 in Podgorica...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro organizes workshop to review National Strategy on preventing and combating terrorism, money laundering and terrorist financing
Publishing date: 10 December 2018
Montenegro’s draft National Strategy on preventing and combating terrorism, money laundering and terrorist financing 2019-2022 and the related Action Plan were reviewed at a workshop organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro and the country’s National Security Council on 10 December 2018 in Podgorica...
OSCE/ODIHR supports building capacity of trainers in effective and human rights-compliant policing in Roma communities in Slovakia
Publishing date: 30 November 2018
Building the capacity of teaching staff to provide training on effective and human rights-compliant policing in Roma communities was the focus of a course organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Košice, Slovakia, from 27 to 30 November 2018.
OSCE Mission equips 15 primary schools in Kosovo with surveillance cameras
Publishing date: 20 November 2018
On 19 November 2018 the OSCE Mission in Kosovo completed the installation of indoor and outdoor surveillance cameras in the primary school Ali Hasi in the village Cërmjan/Crmljane, located in the municipality of Gjakovë/Djakovica, with the aim of reducing violence in schools. This brings the total number of schools equipped with cameras by the OSCE Mission to 15.