News and press releases

ASTANA, 22 October 2014 – A train-the-trainers seminar and master class aimed at enhancing knowledge and skills of police academy instructors on human rights began today in Astana...

On 21 October 2014 the 49th meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) took place in Ergneti, co- facilitated by Toivo Klaar, the Head of the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM), and Ambassador Angelo Gnaedinger, the Special Representative of the Swiss OSCE Chairmanship for the South Caucasus.

The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and within this context the work of the Joint Centre for Co-ordination and Control (JCCC). The Donetsk and Luhansk regions remained tense.

PODGORICA 21 October, 2014 – The financial sustainability of the Public Broadcasting Service, Radio-Television Montenegro (PBS RTCG), and its preparation to digital switch-over were in focus of a seminar organized today by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, in co-operation with the European Broadcasting Union and RTCG...

Ruth Freedom Pojman, OSCE Deputy Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, called for a human rights approach to combating trafficking in human beings on 16 October 2014 at a conference on victim protection in Canada and Europe at the University of Ottawa, co-organized with the Austrian and Swiss Embassies to Canada...

VIENNA, 21 October 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today called on authorities in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia to investigate all hacker attacks on media websites as they represent a clear danger to media freedom...

Raising awareness on waste management was the focus of the two workshops organised by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, in co-operation with the NGO Environmental Movement Ozone, on 17-18 October 2014 in Montenegro...