News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Skopje launches manual on Roma individuals lacking identity documents
Publishing date: 27 February 2015
Raising awareness on lack of identity documents within the Roma community is the focus of a manual launched by the OSCE Mission to Skopje, in co-operation with the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and Ministry of Internal Affairs, in Strumica on 27 February 2015...
Wiretapping of Macedonian journalists unacceptable, OSCE Representative says, calls for swift investigation
Publishing date: 27 February 2015
VIENNA, 27 February 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today urged a swift investigation of the wiretapping of Macedonian journalists...
Securing funds for safe weapons and ammunition storage sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina, focus of OSCE Mission donors meeting
Publishing date: 27 February 2015
SARAJEVO, 27 February 2015 – The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina organized today a donors meeting and a visit to a weapons storage site in Visoko for the embassies of OSCE participating States present in the country...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes U.S. rules on net neutrality that support a free and open Internet
Publishing date: 27 February 2015
VIENNA, 27 February 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today welcomed new rules adopted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to protect an open Internet...
Journalists in Slovenia should not face criminal charges for their work, OSCE Representative says
Publishing date: 27 February 2015
VIENNA, 27 February 2015 – Slovenian authorities should amend provisions in the Criminal Code allowing for the prosecution of journalists, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović said today, following questioning of two journalists by the state public prosecutor in a defamation case...
ODIHR attended Savchenko hearing in Moscow
Publishing date: 27 February 2015
WARSAW, 27 February 2015 – Two representatives from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights attended a court hearing on 25 February related to the case of Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian Air Force pilot and Member of Parliament charged with complicity in the murder of two Russian journalists near Luhansk, Ukraine, in June 2014. At the hearing, the Moscow City Court reaffirmed that Savchenko should remain in pre-trial detention until 13 May 2015...
OSCE supports discussion of draft laws on access to information and countering corruption
Publishing date: 27 February 2015
ASTANA, 27 February 2015 – An OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on developing national legislation on access to information, countering corruption and public oversight took place today in Astana. The event was initiated by the Legal Council of National Democratic Party Nur Otan and co-organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana and the Prosecutor General’s Office with the support of the Legal Policy Research Centre, Internews-Kazakhstan and Soros Foundation- Kazakhstan...