News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE helps Tajikistan implement WTO trade agreement
Publishing date: 23 August 2013
DUSHANBE, 23 August 2013 – An OSCE-facilitated roundtable meeting on strengthening food safety control and upgrading preparation for the implementation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) in Tajikistan, was completed today in Dushanbe...
Integration of formerly deported people in Crimea, Ukraine, is focus of OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities’ latest report
Publishing date: 16 August 2013
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Knut Vollebaek published a needs assessment report on 16 August 2013, entitled The Integration of Formerly Deported People in Crimea, Ukraine. The document seeks to provide an up-to-date analysis of the current situation of national minorities in Crimea and offers recommendations for easing inter-ethnic tensions and increasing the integration of Crimean society, as well as attempts to raise awareness of the issue...
OSCE Mission to Skopje calls upon all communities to keep dynamics of Ohrid Framework Agreement process
Publishing date: 13 August 2013
SKOPJE, 13 August 2013- Today, the OSCE Mission to Skopje is honouring the Ohrid Framework Agreement (OFA), signed exactly 12 years ago on this day that brought an end to an armed conflict by codifying equitable rights and representation of all ethnic communities...
OSCE/ODIHR report on Bulgaria’s early parliamentary elections recommends measures to strengthen public confidence in electoral process and improve media coverage
Publishing date: 25 July 2013
The early parliamentary elections in Bulgaria on 12 May 2013 were held in a competitive environment, but further efforts are needed to strengthen public confidence in the process and ensure balanced media coverage, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights concludes in its final report on the vote...
OSCE media freedom representative presents analysis of latest draft media law to authorities in Skopje, problematic provisions need to be changed
Publishing date: 22 July 2013
VIENNA, 22 July 2013 – Following a legal review of the latest draft Law on Media and Audiovisual Media Services, the OSCE media freedom Representative Dunja Mijatović welcomed the efforts by the authorities in Skopje to harmonize the law with international standards, including OSCE commitments to media freedom and expressed concern about some remaining problematic provisions...
ODIHR Director presents recommendations on 2012 US elections to state and civil society representatives
Publishing date: 19 July 2013
Recommendations from the final report on last year’s general elections in the United States were presented by a team from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at the Carter Center in Atlanta and the summer conference of the National Association of Secretaries of State in Anchorage between 17 and 19 July 2013...
OSCE meeting opens with call to strengthen rule of law to protect human rights
Publishing date: 11 July 2013
VIENNA, 11 July 2013 – Governments should take steps to further strengthen the rule of law to better protect human rights, participants said today at the opening of the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting in Vienna...