Organization for Security and Co-operation in EuropePhotos galleries
Debating Serbia’s draft public information and media law
Serbia finds itself in the midst of a wide-ranging media reform process. At stake are many issues: editorial independence versus fair market competition. Questions of state financing and media ownership. How to ensure transparency of who owns broadcasters and other media. And the question of what the state’s role should be with regard to Internet content regulation...
Photo essay: Monitoring places of detention, preventing torture in Moldova
Throughout 2012, the OSCE Mission to Moldova supported the training of members of local detention-monitoring commissions in an effort to prevent torture and other human rights abuses. This photo essay includes images from a study visit to a police commissariat and a penitentiary in Soroca in the north of Moldova...
A look at the OSCE's newest member, Mongolia
Mongolia joined the OSCE on 21 November 2012, becoming the Organization's 57th participating State.
OSCE Mission supports safe schools project in Skopje
On 7 November 2012, the OSCE Mission in Skopje supported a sports day at the 8th September Secondary School in Skopje, as part of a project on safe schools. The project aims to prevent school violence, and will especially benefit municipalities at risk of interethnic and juvenile violence...
Afghan border police complete OSCE Patrol and Leadership Course
On 19 October 2012 a group of fifteen Afghan border police officers completed a five-week Patrol Programming and Leadership Course run by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...
Alliance against trafficking in persons conference
12th high-level Alliance against Trafficking in Persons conference “An Agenda for Prevention of Human Trafficking: Non-Discrimination and Empowerment” was held in Vienna on 10-11 October 2012.
