Promoting tolerance through education is focus of the OSCE conference in Tirana. One of the works of schoolchildren participating in an anti-discrimination event hosted by the OSCE Presence in Albania and the Commissioner for Protection from Discrimination, Tirana, 11 April 2011.

OSCE Conference in Tirana to focus on tolerance and non-discrimination

VIENNA, 17 May 2013 – Promoting tolerance and non-discrimination is focus of the OSCE High-Level Conference to take place in Tirana from 21 to 22 May, 2013...

Press Release by the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group and the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan

KRAKOW, Poland, 17 May 2013 - The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Jacques Faure of France, and Ian Kelly of the United States of America) met today with the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov, and the Foreign Minister of Armenia, Edward Nalbandian. The Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, also participated in the meetings...
File photo: Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, addresses the OSCE Permanent Council at the Hofburg in Vienna, 29 November 2012.

OSCE media freedom representative concerned about increasing pressure on media in Azerbaijan following online defamation provisions

WARSAW, 15 May 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today expressed deep concern about the increasingly hostile situation for the media in Azerbaijan following moves to extend the criminalization of defamation to the Internet...
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov addressing the OSCE's Permanent Council in Vienna, 14 May 2013.

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister addresses OSCE Permanent Council

VIENNA, 14 May 2013 – The Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov, addressed representatives of the 57 OSCE participating States today in Vienna...
The OSCE's Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, opens a session on media freedom at the OSCE's Review Conference in Warsaw, Poland, 7 October 2010.

OSCE media freedom representative distressed about U.S. Justice Department seizure of reporters’ phone records

WARSAW, 14 May 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today said she was distressed over revelations that in 2012 the U.S. Department of Justice secretly seized two months of office, home and cell phone records from up to 20 phone lines assigned to The Associated Press reporters...
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Security begins...

Still from OSCE animation "Security begins..."
"Security begins..." is a short animated film by the OSCE exploring what 'security' can mean. Now with Russian, French and Armenian versions.

World Press Freedom Day 2013

A photo “Say Cheese” displayed during an exhibition called Freedom of the Press, the Right to Know, which was organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan on World Press Freedom Day, 23 March 2013.
The safety of journalists is the main theme of World Press Freedom Day 2013, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

20 years of conflict prevention

A still from the documentary film "Georgia: one State, many languages" produced by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities.
The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities institution recently marked its 20th anniversary by both celebrating past achievements and looking ahead.