News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre in Astana launches training seminars on National Preventive Mechanism for preventing torture and ill-treatment
Publishing date: 2 September 2014
ASTANA, 2 September 2014 – The second in a series of four OSCE-supported training seminars on practical aspects of implementing the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) for preventing torture and ill-treatment in Kazakhstan took place today in Astana...
OSCE Centre in Ashgabat promotes national mechanisms of combatting money laundering
Publishing date: 2 September 2014
ASHGABAT, 2 September 2014 – The national system for combatting money laundering and preventing financing of terrorism was discussed at an OSCE-supported roundtable discussion, held at the Good Governance Resource Centre in Ashgabat today...
Russian authorities must end impunity for attacks on journalists, says OSCE Representative following another attack in Pskov
Publishing date: 30 August 2014
VIENNA, 30 August 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today called for the Russian authoities to fully investigate and prosecute all attacks on journalist following an attack against journalist Lev Schlosberg in Pskov, in western Russia.
OSCE Representative welcomes court decision declaring wiretapping of journalists in Lithuania illegal
Publishing date: 29 August 2014
VIENNA, 29 August 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today welcomed the Vilnius Regional Court ruling of 18 August, which found illegal the wiretapping of the telephone conversations of ten current and former employees of the Baltic News Service (BNS), one of the largest news agencies in Lithuania...
OSCE Representative condemns attacks on journalists in Russia, calls on authorities for swift and thorough investigations
Publishing date: 27 August 2014
VIENNA, 27 August 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today condemned several recent attacks on journalists in the Pskov region, in western Russia...
Criminal libel conviction of blogger in Mongolia unacceptable, says OSCE Representative
Publishing date: 26 August 2014
VIENNA, 26 August 2014 – A Mongolian court’s sentencing of a blogger to prison for defaming a high-ranking political figure through social media is a cause for concern, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, said today...
With humanitarian aid urgently needed, OSCE Chairperson calls upon all sides to render convoy aid a co-operative endeavor again
Publishing date: 23 August 2014
BERN, August 23, 2014 – Deploring that the agreement by Ukraine and the Russian Federation on the modalities of delivering the convoy aid was not implemented in good faith, Didier Burkhalter, Swiss Minister of Foreign Affairs and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, called on all parties to exercise maximum restraint and refrain from any actions which could contribute to the further escalation of the situation. Stressing that humanitarian aid had to be delivered in accordance with humanitarian principles and in full respect of Ukrainian sovereignty, Burkhalter urged all sides to help transform this convoy aid into a cooperative endeavor again.