News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan organizes online seminar on protection of private life and personal data
Publishing date: 21 August 2020
An OSCE-supported online seminar on protecting the private life and personal data was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan on 20 August 2020 in Nur-Sultan...
OSCE supports Kyrgyzstan’s efforts to prepare and ensure safety and lawfulness during 2020 Parliamentary Elections
Publishing date: 21 August 2020
More than 100 representatives of the Bishkek city's law enforcement agencies took part in the OSCE-supported three-week online training course on 17 August 2020 in Bishkek. The course focused on how to prepare and ensure safety and lawfulness during the upcoming 4 October parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan...
The power of digital technologies must be harnessed to counter hatred based on religion or belief, ODIHR says
Publishing date: 21 August 2020
WARSAW, 21 August 2020 – On the eve of the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) calls for better use to be made of the advantages that digital technologies can offer, as well as a greater emphasis on countering hatred online...
Press Statement of Special Representative Grau after the regular Meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group on 19 August 2020
Publishing date: 20 August 2020
KYIV, 20 August 2020 – The Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Heidi Grau, made the following statement to the press after the regular meetings of the TCG and its Working Groups held through video conferencing:..
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to deploy observers to parliamentary elections in Montenegro
Publishing date: 19 August 2020
COPENHAGEN, 19 August 2020 – In the first OSCE PA election observation activity since the coronavirus outbreak last spring, a limited number of OSCE parliamentarians will deploy to Montenegro for the 30 August parliamentary elections. OSCE PA Vice-President Margareta Cederfelt (Sweden) has been nominated to be the Special Co-ordinator of the Special Limited Election Observation Mission (SLEOM), which will include some 12 observers. The PA observers will work closely with the Limited Election Observation Mission deployed by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights...
OSCE supports online training seminar on filling out and using Pollutant Release Transfer Register in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 19 August 2020
An OSCE-supported online training seminar on the filling out and use of the Protocol on the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) for some 45 private and civil sector representatives in the Karaganda region took place on 18 August 2020...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan trains media representatives on emerging trends in journalism
Publishing date: 18 August 2020
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, in co-operation with the Public Foundation for Support and Development of National Mass Media and with the support of the Agency of Information and Mass Communications under the Administration of the President, is organizing an online training course from 18 to 20 August 2020, to enhance the skills of journalists, press officers, bloggers and other media representatives in the country...