News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE advisory teams help promote human rights in Kosovo's ministries
Publishing date: 21 March 2007
PRISTINA, 21 March 2007- Ambassador Werner Wnendt, the Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, will today host a ceremony in Prishtine/Pristina to mark the first year of the deployment of OSCE Human Rights Advisory Teams in Kosovo ministries...
OSCE Mission to Skopje helps develop community policing
Publishing date: 21 March 2007
SKOPJE, 21 March 2007- Ten scooters worth more than 30,000 euros were handed over by the OSCE Mission to the Interior Ministry in Skopje today. They will be used to boost the efficiency of the OSCE-supported community-policing programme...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports civil society development
Publishing date: 16 March 2007
SKOPJE, 16 March 2007- The OSCE Mission to Skopje launched a small grants programme aimed at supporting the capacity-building of non-governmental organizations active in the area of human rights. Three grant contracts were signed today with local NGOs...
Project plans for economic rehabilitation of zone of Georgian-Ossetian conflict discussed at OSCE meeting
Publishing date: 13 March 2007
TBILISI, 13 March 2007- International projects for the economic rehabilitation of the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict are being discussed at an OSCE-chaired Steering Committee meeting in Tskhinvali today...
ODIHR holds UK training course on protecting human rights in fight against terrorism
Publishing date: 8 March 2007
LONDON, 8 March 2007- The need to protect human rights in the fight against terrorism will be the focus of a training course for senior officials beginning in London today...
OSCE to have robust role in future Kosovo, UN Special Envoy says
Publishing date: 20 February 2007
VIENNA, 20 February 2007- The OSCE should continue to play a major role in a future Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the future status process for Kosovo, said today...
OSCE ready to help Turkmenistan advance democratic reforms after election, says Chairman Moratinos
Publishing date: 12 February 2007
MADRID, 12 February 2007- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office said today he hoped the dialogue between the Organization and Turkmenistan will intensify after Sunday´s Presidential election, including on...