News and press releases

SKOPJE, 14 June 2023 — The OSCE Mission to Skopje unveiled a renovated administrative building for the Police Canine (K9) Unit of North Macedonia today in Hipodrom, a suburb of Skopje. The Mission helped equip the building with modern IT surveillance infrastructure and provided secure access control systems to the weapon storage facility for authorized personnel. These efforts help improve working conditions for police officers, making them better equipped to respond to emerging threats and ensure the efficient deployment of police service dogs.

VIENNA, 12 June 2023- The OSCE Secretary General, Helga Maria Schmid, concluded her visit to Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan on 8 June. She met with high-level government officials, parliamentarians and civil society representatives, and discussed how the OSCE can facilitate regional solutions in addressing the broad range of security challenges that the region is facing and provide further support across all aspects of the OSCE’s work.

On 9 June 2023, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz) in collaboration with the National Human Rights Centre and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Uzbekistan held a roundtable to discuss the draft Methodological Guidelines to Ensure Rights of Women and Children in Emergency Situations.

VIENNA, 9 June 2023 – Teresa Ribeiro, the Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM), concluded her visit to Slovakia yesterday. The purpose of the visit was to discuss persistent challenges to freedom of the media and assess the progress made in ensuring the safety of journalists in Slovakia.

Biodiversity loss is one of humanity’s greatest challenges. Amplified by climate change, it threatens not only ecosystems but also the people who depend on them. On June 9, OSCE and adelphi, a Berlin-based think tank, published a Strategy Paper on strengthening co-operation to address

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo concluded on 31 May 2023 a series of five workshops for high school students on sexual violence and sexual harassment. Organized in co-operation with the Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), the workshops aimed at further enriching the

On 5 and 6 June 2023, the OSCE Presence in Albania held the last phase of a comprehensive multi-module curriculum training for state auditors on diagnosing and assessing corruption risks in the public procurement area. The training sessions – organized in partnership with the Italian