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OSCE gathers youth, influencers and governmental practitioners in Tajikistan to discuss awareness raising on youth crime prevention
Publishing date: 24 April 2024
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Youth
On 23 and 24 April, the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) and the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA), in co-operation with the Programme Office in Dushanbe, held multi-stakeholder workshops with young people, influencers and governmental practitioners to discuss how to use social media as a platform to raise the awareness and resilience of young people on involvement in crime.
Regional expert-level conference on addressing the digital information disorder, terrorism and violent extremism concluded in Ulaanbaatar
Publishing date: 24 April 2024
To combat the “digital information disorder”, which refers to misinformation, disinformation, and malign information in the digital realm, the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, together with the National Counter-Terrorism Council of Mongolia (NCTC), organized a regional expert-level conference in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on 23 and 24 April: “Addressing the Prevailing Digital Information Disorder: Countering the Use of the Internet by Terrorists and Violent Extremists”.
OSCE helps strengthen police dog capabilities in Moldova
Publishing date: 22 April 2024
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
Participants of a roundtable meeting convened by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) on 18 April 2024 have begun devising a new master plan for comprehensive police dog (K9) services at the General Police Inspectorate of Moldova (GPI).
OSCE conducts training course on countering the financing of terrorism in Kosovo
Publishing date: 19 April 2024
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
On 16-18 April, the OSCE Secretariat's Transnational Threats Department, with the support of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and in partnership with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), conducted a training course in Pejë/Peć aimed at enhancing the capacities of local entities in countering the financing of terrorism.
Digital Empowerment: Central Asian Women’s Entrepreneurship Programme Concludes Successfully
Publishing date: 19 April 2024
Content type: News
The Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) celebrated the successful conclusion of the Central Asian Women Entrepreneurship Programme with a closing event and award ceremony held in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 18 April. The event highlighted the achievement of 20
Cyber Incident Classification System in focus of OSCE workshop
Publishing date: 19 April 2024
Content type: News
Where we are: Transnational Threats Department, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Cyber/ICT Security
The OSCE Secretariat’s Transnational Threats Department (TNTD) organized a workshop on national cyber incident classification- a metric system for the classification of cyber incidents.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Borg and Secretary General Schmid respond to recent political developments in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 19 April 2024
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairpersonship, OSCE Secretariat
VALLETTA/VIENNA, 19 April 2024 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade of Malta Ian Borg and OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid made the following statement regarding the actions taken by the Republika Srpska National Assembly to unilaterally transfer competences from the State to the entity level with the aim of creating a parallel electoral system within the entity.