News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE/ODIHR assists Belarus with reforming Soviet-era population registration
Publishing date: 7 July 2003
MINSK, 7 July 2003- International and Belarusian experts meet in Minsk today to discuss ways to reform Belarus' population registration system. With this meeting the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), together...
OSCE States urged to stimulate conditions to reap benefits of globalization
Publishing date: 4 July 2003
VIENNA, 4 July 2003- The first OSCE conference on the effects of globalization ended today in Vienna with calls by participants for the Organization and its participating States to further develop good governance and democratic institutions...
Europe's domestic observer groups develop common approach to election monitoring, urge full access to entire electoral process
Publishing date: 1 July 2003
ZAGREB, 1 July 2003- Domestic observer groups from across Europe have developed a common approach to monitoring elections and called on states to ensure full access of observers to all stages of the electoral process...
New publication voices concerns of Kosovo's minorities
Publishing date: 1 July 2003
PRISTINA, 1 July 2003- Ensuring that the voices of the many minority groups in Kosovo are better heard is the goal of a new booklet published by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)...
OSCE to hold conference on effects of globalization
Publishing date: 1 July 2003
VIENNA, 1 July 2003- Benefits, risks and challenges of globalization will be the focus of a two-day international conference to be held by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in the Vienna Hofburg Conference Centre on 3 and 4 July...
Roundtables on legal ethics conducted in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 30 June 2003
ASHGABAD, 30 June 2003- The OSCE Centre in Ashgabad, the American Bar Association's Central and Eastern European Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI) and the recently created Turkmen Young Lawyers Association (TYLA) have conducted a second roundtable...
OSCE trains Armenian police on countering domestic violence
Publishing date: 27 June 2003
YEREVAN, 27 June 2003- An OSCE-organized training programme to enable Armenian police officers to more efficiently combat domestic violence began this week in the country's capital, Yerevan. "Domestic violence is an infringement of a person's...