News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Use of contraband detectors in focus at OSCE training seminar for border security officers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 8 December 2014
A three-day training seminar on the use of density metres and microscopic cameras for inspecting vehicles entering Kazakhstan began on 8 December 2014 in Kordai, close to the Kyrgyzstan border...
Head of OSCE Mission to Montenegro supports parliament’s initiative to engage pupils on democracy and human rights
Publishing date: 8 December 2014
Human rights, non-discrimination and the role of the OSCE in promoting these values were among the topics discussed at a Democracy Workshop on 5 December 2014, attended by the students of the Radoje Cizmovic elementary school from Niksic and the Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, Ambassador Janina Hrebickova. The workshop was organized in Podgorica by the parliament of Montenegro...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports dialogue on education for sustainable development
Publishing date: 8 December 2014
The OSCE Centre in Bishkek on 4 December 2014 supported a two-day regional roundtable discussion in Kyrgyzstan’s capital on the outcomes of UNESCO’s World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development...
Arrest of journalist latest case of crackdown of free media in Azerbaijan, says OSCE Representative
Publishing date: 5 December 2014
BASEL, Switzerland, 5 December 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today condemned the arrest of Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismailova...
Journalists’ protection of sources must be safeguarded, OSCE Representative says following probe in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 5 December 2014
BASEL, 5 December 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today called on the authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to improve journalists’ rights following a probe launched to identify confidential sources...
OSCE Mission concludes training for responders to domestic violence in Kosovo
Publishing date: 5 December 2014
The last in a series of five workshops on standard operating procedures for protecting people from domestic violence concluded in Prishtinë/Priština on 5 December 2014. The workshops, organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and the Kosovo Agency for Gender Equality, have trained a total of 200 police officers, social workers, victims’ advocates, doctors, shelters’ staff, teachers, judges, and prosecutors...
OSCE Think Tank Network, in Basel, presents study on field operations
Publishing date: 5 December 2014
The OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions presented its recent study, The Future of OSCE Field Operations (Options), at a side event during the 2014 OSCE Parallel Civil Society Conference in Basel on 3 December...