News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Head of OSCE Centre in Astana meets regional authorities and civil society in South Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 3 December 2012
From 30 November to 1 December 2012, the Head of the OSCE Centre in Astana, Ambassador Natalya Zarudna, and the Centre staff visited the South Kazakhstan Region and its capital, Shymkent...
Secretary General of Organization of Islamic Co-operation addresses OSCE, stresses need to jointly counter religious intolerance
Publishing date: 30 November 2012
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Co-operation (OIC), addressed the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on 29 November 2012 and stressed the need to jointly address intolerance and discrimination on religious grounds...
OSCE Centre holds expert meeting on administrative justice reform in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 29 November 2012
ASTANA, 29 November 2012- An OSCE-supported expert conference on the role of administrative law and justice in human rights protection was held in Astana today...
OSCE supports Kosovo Assembly Women’s Caucus in raising funds for women’s health issues
Publishing date: 26 November 2012
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 26 November 2012- The OSCE Mission and the Assembly of Kosovo Women’s Caucus launched today a media campaign to raise awareness about the importance of timely testing and detection of breast cancer and to raise funds for the purchase of a mobile mammograph...
Religious leaders should promote recognition for all religious and belief communities, participants at OSCE meeting say
Publishing date: 23 November 2012
Religious leaders can do more to promote the right of all religious and belief communities to full, equal and non-discriminatory access to legal personality, said participants at a joint meeting of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the European Council of Religious Leaders- Religions for Peace (ECRL) in Warsaw on 22 November 2012...
Self-regulation, code of ethics key to fighting pressure on print media, conclude OSCE conference participants
Publishing date: 22 November 2012
PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 22 November 2012- Self-regulatory bodies for print media have a key role to play in improving the quality of reporting, protecting media from undue pressure, and increasing their competitiveness in saturated media markets, the participants of an OSCE conference on the state of print media in South Eastern Europe concluded today...
OSCE promotes co-operation in demilitarization, explosive hazards reduction and explosive ordnance disposal in Central Asia
Publishing date: 21 November 2012