News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Diplomatic community must take responsibility for prevention of trafficking for domestic servitude, says OSCE Special Representative in Kyiv
Publishing date: 14 June 2013
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, at a workshop in Kyiv held from 12 to 13 June 2013 urged the Organization’s participating States to take concrete steps to prevent the little-known phenomenon of trafficking for domestic servitude in diplomatic households...
OSCE/ODIHR presents electoral recommendations in Lithuania
Publishing date: 13 June 2013
A team from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) visited Vilnius from 11 to 13 June 2013 to present the final report of the Election Assessment Mission for last year’s parliamentary elections in Lithuania...
Fulfilling media-freedom commitments requires mustered political will, says OSCE Representative to participating States
Publishing date: 13 June 2013
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, told participating States on 13 June 2013 in Vienna that political will needs to be mustered to fulfil commitments on Internet freedom and journalists’ safety...
Students complete OSCE-supported teaching practice
Publishing date: 13 June 2013
Fourteen future teachers received certificates after completing a training course supported by the OSCE Mission to Skopje at a ceremony on 13 June 2013 in country’s eastern city of Shtip...
Closure of public service broadcaster could endanger media pluralism in Greece, warns OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 12 June 2013
VIENNA, 12 June 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, warned today that the closure of Greece’s public service broadcaster, ERT, could deprive citizens of a diversity of views, and it creates economic hardship for the dismissed journalists...
Constitutional protection of human rights in Montenegro discussed at OSCE-supported conference
Publishing date: 12 June 2013
How to further develop the constitutional protection of human rights in Montenegro was the topic of an OSCE-supported conference held in Bečići on the 10-11 June 2013...
Annual report on OSCE court monitoring presented in Montenegro
Publishing date: 12 June 2013
Several court monitoring reports were presented at a conference in Montenegro on 10 June 2013...