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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE-supported event explores Armenia’s hydropower potential
Publishing date: 24 February 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
The measures Armenia can take to better harness the potential of hydroelectricity were highlighted at an OSCE-supported seminar held on 20 February 2014 in Yerevan...
OSCE holds professional training course for national security officers in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 24 February 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
An OSCE-supported professional training course for ten officers of the Bishkek and Osh Remand Prisons under the State Committee on National Security of Kyrgyzstan (SCNS) concluded on 22 February 2014 in Bishkek...
Swiss OSCE Chairmanship and OSCE Mission to Serbia support regional dialogue of civil society on torture prevention and fight against hate crime
Publishing date: 24 February 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Tolerance and non-discrimination
BELGRADE, 24 February 2014-- Strengthening the role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in the Western Balkans in preventing torture and in fighting hate speech, especially against Roma, is the focus of a two-day regional workshop starting in Belgrade today....
OSCE-facilitated mayoral elections in Mitrovica/Mitrovicë North carried out successfully
Publishing date: 23 February 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections
MITROVICË/MITROVICA, 23 February 2014 – OSCE Mission in Kosovo has successfully facilitated repeat elections for the mayor of Mitrovica/Mitrovicë North municipality held today...
OSCE Chair-in-Office welcomes Ukraine agreement
Publishing date: 21 February 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
BERN, 21 February 2014- Didier Burkhalter, Swiss Foreign Minister and Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, has welcomed the agreement reached between the parties regarding the settlement of the crisis in Ukraine...
OSCE PA Special Representative for Central Asia visits Kazakhstan: development of civil society, regional co-operation among topics discussed
Publishing date: 21 February 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
COPENHAGEN, 21 February 2014 – OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Special Representative for Central Asia Thierry Mariani (France) is in Kazakhstan this week for discussions with parliamentarians and government officials on a broad range of national and regional issues...
Switzerland should safeguard journalists’ right to protection of sources
Publishing date: 21 February 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 21 February 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today called on Swiss authorities to improve journalists’ rights following a court ruling ordering Nina Jecker, a Basler Zeitung reporter, to identify her source in a criminal trial...