News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Montenegro trains municipal workers on gender budgeting
Publishing date: 1 April 2014
The strategies and benefits of effective gender budgeting were highlighted at a training course in Podgorica on 31 March and 1 April 2014 for gender focal points from municipal authorities across Montenegro...
Turkmenistan officials learn about UK penitentiary system during OSCE-supported visit
Publishing date: 28 March 2014
LONDON, 28 March 2014 – The British penitentiary system and prison reform were the focus of an OSCE-supported working visit to the United Kingdom that concluded in London today...
Communiqué by OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on blocking television channels
Publishing date: 27 March 2014
Recently politicians, lawmakers and regulators in Ukraine have expressed concern about the influence of Russian television on information security or other national interests. These concerns are often followed by actions that effectively suspend or ban all or some programmes produced in Russia. In a similar development, de facto authorities in Crimea several weeks ago abruptly and brutally switched off almost all Ukrainian television channels and replaced them with channels originating from the Russian Federation.
OSCE supports Ukraine’s efforts to clear seashores from legacy of past wars
Publishing date: 24 March 2014
Diving suits, hydroacousticdevices and underwater communication sets are among the equipment handed over on 21 March 2014 by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine to the national State Emergency Service in Kyiv to use for clearing the country’s coastal areas from explosive remnants of war and unsafe ammunition,as well as in other underwater rescue and humanitarian operations...
OSCE PA Special Representative on Border Co-operation visits Serbia-Hungary border
Publishing date: 20 March 2014
COPENHAGEN, 20 March 2014 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's Special Representative on Border Co-operation, Ignacio Sanchez Amor (MP, Spain), has completed a study visit to the Serbian-Hungarian border.
OSCE launches National Dialogue project in Ukraine
Publishing date: 20 March 2014
VIENNA, 20 March 2014 – The OSCE today started to deploy a team of 15 international experts to Ukraine as part of a National Dialogue project to identify areas for further OSCE activities to support confidence-building between different parts of Ukrainian society...
Political leaders have central role to play in countering racism and hate crime, say heads of European human rights institutions on International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Publishing date: 19 March 2014
WARSAW / STRASBOURG / VIENNA, 21 March 2014 – Political will and leadership are vital to countering racism, discrimination and hate crime, the heads of three intergovernmental human rights institutions said today in a joint statement on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination...