News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Presence in Albania, ODIHR train foreign ministry staff, election commission members and civil society on short-term election observation
Publishing date: 4 July 2014
Staff from the Albanian Foreign Ministry, Central Election Commission and civil society on 4 July 2014 completed a three-day training course in Tirana on short-term election observation. The course was jointly organized by the OSCE Presence in Albania and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)...
OSCE media freedom representative condemns attack on editor in Serbia
Publishing date: 3 July 2014
VIENNA, 3 July 2014- OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today condemned yesterday’s brutal attack on the editor of FoNet news agency, Davor Pašalić.
Human rights violations root causes of instability, UN High Commissioner Navi Pillay tells OSCE
Publishing date: 3 July 2014
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Navi Pillay addressed the OSCE Permanent Council on 3 July 2014 to mark the deeper co-operation between her office and OSCE...
Kyrgyzstan removed from FATF non-co-operative countries list, with OSCE assistance
Publishing date: 3 July 2014
Kyrgyzstan has been removed from the ‘grey list’ of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and will no longer be subject to the FATF’s monitoring process under its ongoing global process of compliance with requirements on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT). This was announced at the third FATF Plenary meeting held from 25 to 27 June 2014 in Paris. The OSCE Centre in Bishkek contributed to this through providing technical assistance to Kyrgyzstan...
OSCE/ODIHR seminar highlights need for clear separation between state and political parties
Publishing date: 2 July 2014
The role of political parties in parliaments and the separation between parties and the state were the focus of an expert seminar organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw on 1 and 2 July 2014.
OSCE trains Ukrainian social service providers on working with domestic violence offenders
Publishing date: 2 July 2014
Thirty representatives of social service providers from various regions of Ukraine were trained on effectively handling domestic violence cases and working with offenders, during a two-day session in Lviv in western Ukraine that ended on 2 July 2014...
OSCE parliamentarians approve Russia resolution amid debate on Ukraine
Publishing date: 1 July 2014
BAKU, 1 July 2014 – By a majority of three-to-one, OSCE parliamentarians approved a resolution that condemns Russia’s recent actions in Ukraine during a plenary meeting today at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 2014 Annual Session Baku...