News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports roundtable discussion on revising Kazakhstan’s Environmental Code
Publishing date: 29 March 2018
Some 45 representatives from Kazakhstan’s Energy Ministry, international organizations and civil society sector gathered for an OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on revising the country’s Environmental Code on 29 March 2018 in Astana...
OSCE trains community police officers in Kazakhstan on combating domestic violence
Publishing date: 29 March 2018
A two-day seminar organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana on the legal acts and mechanisms regulating the police’s work in combating domestic violence concluded on 29 March 2018 in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Secretary General concerned about tensions in Kosovo
Publishing date: 28 March 2018
ROME, VIENNA, 28 March 2018 –– In light of the 26 March events in northern Kosovo and subsequent developments, the OSCE Chairmanship-in-Office and the OSCE Secretary General call on all sides to refrain from provocations and re-engage in constructive dialogue.
OSCE Mission to Skopje signs memorandum of understanding with the Association of Journalists
Publishing date: 28 March 2018
The Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, Ambassador Nina Suomalainen, and the President of the Association of Journalists (AJM) Naser Selmani signed today in Skopje a memorandum of understanding, which envisages the organization of a series of activities aiming to improve the safety of journalists and to promote freedom of the media...
First workshop on OSCE-wide identification guidelines for migrants and refugee victims of trafficking concludes in Skopje
Publishing date: 28 March 2018
Skopje, 28 March 2018 –The first in a series of OSCE workshops on the development of guidelines and a training module for better co-ordinated, harmonized and victim-centred identification of human trafficking cases among mixed migration flows concluded in Skopje today. The one-day event was organized jointly by the OSCE Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (OSR/CTHB) and the OSCE’s field operations in South-Eastern Europe.
OSCE report on judicial shortcomings in processing corruption cases in Bosnia and Herzegovina presented in Brčko
Publishing date: 28 March 2018
BRČKO, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 28 March 2018- The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) presented a first assessment of issues negatively impacting the quality and effectiveness of the judicial response to corruption in BiH to representatives of the judiciary and law enforcement agencies today in Brčko.
OSCE SMM long-range unmanned aerial vehicles resume monitoring of security situation in eastern Ukraine
Publishing date: 28 March 2018
KYIV, 28 March 2018- The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) today re-introduced the use of long-range unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which will operate over Donetsk and Luhansk regions...