News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
On anniversary of Montenegrin journalist's killing, OSCE media freedom representative calls for end of impunity for attackers
Publishing date: 28 May 2013
On 28 May 2013, the ninth anniversary of the murder of Montenegrin journalist Duško Jovanović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, urged the authorities to end the impunity against journalists’ attackers...
OSCE Office helps integrate human rights education into Tajikistan’s schools
Publishing date: 28 May 2013
A three-day training course on human rights education for 20 teacher trainers from Dushanbe, Sughd, Khatlon, and Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Provinces, organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan in co-operation with the Teachers’ Training Institute of the Ministry of Education, concluded on 25 May 2013 in Dushanbe...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities: State must take responsibility for facilitating integration
Publishing date: 28 May 2013
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Knut Vollebaek has stressed the need for governments to promote integration of society during the last official visit of his mandate to Skopje from 22 to 24 May 2013...
Stop radicalization and violent extremism to prevent terrorism, OSCE Secretary General says at security conference
Publishing date: 28 May 2013
Recent terrorist attacks in the OSCE region show that terrorism and conditions that contribute to the spread of terrorism are likely to remain a key challenge for participating States, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier said at an international security conference in Budapest on 29 May 2013...
OSCE Mission to Skopje trains police officers on collecting intelligence data on terrorism
Publishing date: 27 May 2013
The OSCE Mission to Skopje in co-operation with the Interior Ministry holds a specialized training course for police officers in Skopje from 27 to 31 May 2013 on collecting operational intelligence data on terrorism...
OSCE Mission to Skopje trains civil society organizations on how to better identify and report hate crimes
Publishing date: 27 May 2013
Some 30 members of civil society organizations participated in a two-day training event on how to improve reporting on hate crimes, which was organized by the OSCE Mission to Skopje and the OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Veles on 27 May 2013...
OSCE media freedom representative concerned over prison sentences for defamation in Italy, reiterates her call to decriminalize libel
Publishing date: 27 May 2013
VIENNA, 27 May 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern today about prison sentences handed down to three journalists in Italy for libel...