(L-r) ODIHR Director, Ambassador Janez Lenarčič and Martina Feeny, Deputy Head of the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the OSCE, listen as Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, delivers the keynote address at the Human Dimension Seminar on ways to strengthen the rule of law to combat human trafficking. Warsaw, 14 May 2012.

Rule of law vital to protecting rights of victims of human trafficking, participants at OSCE meeting say

WARSAW, 14 May 2012 - The rule of law needs to be strengthened in the fight against human trafficking in order to better protect victims' human rights and ensure them access to justice, participants said today at the opening of an OSCE meeting on the topic...
L-r: The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors Jacques Faure of France, Robert Bradtke of the United States, and Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, after their address to the OSCE Permanent Council, Vienna, 22 March 2012.

Statement of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs

BAKU, 14 May 2012 - The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Robert Bradtke of the United States, Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, and Jacques Faure of France) and Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk (Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office) traveled May 11-14 to Yerevan and Baku, where they met with Presidents Sargsian and Aliyev to discuss the most recent efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict...
A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Moscow during Russia's Presidential election, 4 March 2012.

OSCE/ODIHR final report on Russia’s presidential election recommends measures to promote fairness and equality in electoral process

The final report by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on Russia’s presidential election on 4 March 2012 concludes that the contest was clearly skewed in favour of one of the contestants and recommends measures to ensure a more balanced process...
Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, during a news conference in Vienna. 29 July 2010.

OSCE media freedom representative condemns brutal attack against journalist in Greece and urges swift investigation

VIENNA, 11 May 2012 - The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today condemned the beating of Greek journalist Konstantinos Bogdanos, and called for a swift investigation by the authorities...
R-l: Yuri Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; Thomas Wuchte, Head on OSCE Anti-Terrorism Issues; and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier, during a conference on improving the control of explosive substances, Vienna, 10 May 2012.

OSCE, UNODC hold joint conference on the terrorist use of explosives

VIENNA, 10 May 2012 – A two-day conference aimed at improving the control of explosive substances in order to hinder terrorists’ access to them, organized by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) started in Vienna today...
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Slideshow: teaching safe borders

One of the border facilities in Tajikistan visited by students of the OSCE Management Staff College.
The OSCE Border Management Staff College, based in Dushanbe, provides training to senior border management officials, based on OSCE expertise.

OSCE Annual Report 2011

Cover of the OSCE Secretary General's 2011 Annual Report
The OSCE Annual Report provides an overview of the Organization's activities in its field operations and institutions, and co-operation with other organizations.

The Community Security Initiative

A CSI team meets with police officers at the LCPC-1 police station, Kyzyl-Kiya, 15 March 2012.
The CSI was established to support Kyrgyzstan’s police in addressing the country’s security situation following the 2010 strife in the nation’s south.