News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
High Commissioner on National Minorities highlights access to education, situation in Crimea in her statement to OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 24 November 2014
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Astrid Thors highlighted access to higher education by national minorities and human rights abuses in Crimea in her statement to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on 20 November 2014...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 20 November 2014
Publishing date: 21 November 2014
The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum and the activities of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC)...
OSCE helps Ukrainian law enforcement educational institutions to improve teaching of cybercrime investigation
Publishing date: 21 November 2014
Twenty teachers from educational institutions of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies enhanced their knowledge and skills in the area of investigating ICT-related crimes,during a five-day intensive train-the-trainer course that ends on 21 November 2014, in Kyiv...
Accountability and transparency of public institutions in focus of OSCE-led seminar in Montenegro
Publishing date: 21 November 2014
The OSCE Mission to Montenegro, in co-operation with the Judicial Training Centre and the U.S. Embassy in Podgorica organized a four-day seminar from 17-20 November 2014 in Budva on the importance of public information and outreach in the Judicial, Prosecutorial, and Police institutions...
Actions must be taken to ensure journalists’ safety and end impunity, OSCE Representative says at European Federation of Journalists Annual Meeting in Moscow
Publishing date: 21 November 2014
MOSCOW, 21 November 2014 – Ensuring journalists’ safety and breaking the cycle of impunity remain the biggest challenges to overcome for free media, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović said today in a keynote speech at the European Federation of Journalists’ Annual Meeting “Journalism in Times of Conflict: Impunity, Safety & Ethics”, at Moscow’s Central House of Journalists...
OSCE Centre supports discussion on new criminal justice model in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 21 November 2014
An OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on the implementation of the action plan for the transition to a new model of the criminal and administrative justice took place on 21 November 2014 in Almaty...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports youth participation in democratic life
Publishing date: 20 November 2014
Empowering youth participation in democratic life is the focus of a seminar supported by the OSCE Mission to Skopje that will take place from 20 to 22 November 2014, in Bitola...