News and press releases

News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.

OSCE starts anti-trafficking project in Tajikistan

Publishing date: 18 January 2002

Content type: Press release

Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe

What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Human rights

DUSHANBE/KHUJAND, 18 January 2002- The OSCE Mission to Tajikistan has begun a three-month pilot project aimed at raising awareness of human trafficking among law enforcement officials in the city of Khujand, northern Tajikistan...

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New OSCE Chairman-in-Office makes fight against terrorism Organization's priority for 2002

Publishing date: 17 January 2002

Content type: Press release

Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council

What we do: Arms control, Democratization, Border management, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, Elections, Media freedom and development, National minority issues, Policing, Reform and co-operation in the security sector

VIENNA, 17 January 2002- The new OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Portuguese Foreign Minister Jaime Gama, today announced in his first speech to the Organization's 55-nation Permanent Council that the fight against terrorism will be one of OSCE's priorities

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OSCE Georgia Mission expands border monitoring operation

Publishing date: 2 January 2002

Content type: Press release

Where we are: OSCE Mission to Georgia (closed)

What we do: Border management

TBILISI, 2 January 2002-- The OSCE Mission to Georgia today deployed a team of five international border monitors to the village of Sno, north-eastern Georgia, where a new OSCE border monitoring base has been established

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OSCE Chairman-in-Office welcomes abolition of exit visas in Turkmenistan

Publishing date: 28 December 2001

Content type: Press release

Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship

What we do: Democratization

BUCHAREST, 28 December 2001- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, welcomes the decision taken by the President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov, to abolish the exit visa requirement...

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International conference agrees on need to abolish death penalty in Tajikistan

Publishing date: 21 December 2001

Content type: Press release

Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe

What we do: Democratization, Human rights

DUSHANBE, 21 December 2001- An International Conference on the Death Penalty, co-organized by the OSCE Mission to Tajikistan on 20 and 21 December, ended today in Dushanbe with an appeal by the participants to the President of Tajikistan...

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OSCE monitors accompany redeployment of Macedonian multi-ethnic police

Publishing date: 20 December 2001

Content type: Press release

Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje

What we do: Democratization, Border management, Human rights, Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues, Policing

SKOPJE, 20 December 2001-- Ethnically mixed police teams, accompanied by monitors of the OSCE and the European Union, yesterday redeployed to another five villages located in the previous conflict area around the town of Tetovo...