News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media meets with Deputy Head of Delegation of Lithuania
Publishing date: 7 May 2021
On 7 May 2021, Teresa Ribeiro, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM) met with Dangira West, Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Lithuanian Delegation, to discuss media freedom in Lithuania and the broader OSCE region.
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media meets with Chargé d'Affaires of the Permanent Mission of Greece to the OSCE
Publishing date: 7 May 2021
On 5 May, Teresa Ribeiro, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM), met with Chargé d'Affaires Georgios Daskalopoulos, to discuss media freedom developments and challenges in Greece.
OSCE Mission to Montenegro works with NGOs to improve accessibility on polling day
Publishing date: 7 May 2021
Representative from the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, the Association of Youth with Disabilities and the Union of the Blind of Montenegro worked together to produce guidelines for municipal electoral commissions on improving accessibility of polling stations.
Economic connectivity perspectives and operationalization of Euro-Asian transport corridors focus of OSCE and UNECE discussions
Publishing date: 6 May 2021
Economic connectivity perspectives and the operationalization of Euro-Asian inland transport links (EATL) were the focus of two rounds of virtual consultations held by the OSCE and the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) on 25 March 2021 and 6 May 2021...
Social re-use of confiscated assets from organized crime focus of OSCE-supported workshop in Serbia
Publishing date: 6 May 2021
On 5 May 2021, the Serbian Directorate for the Administration of Seized Assets, eight local civil society organizations (CSOs) and OSCE experts discussed opportunities and modalities to socially re-use assets confiscated from organized crime...
Joint OSCE/Frontex meeting explores ways to strengthen document checks at borders in South-Eastern Europe
Publishing date: 5 May 2021
Exploring ways to further strengthen capabilities for document checks at border controls in South-Eastern Europe was the focus of an online meeting held on 29 April 2021 as a follow-up to the 2019 Co-ordination Conference on Preventing Document Fraud — co-operation in South Eastern Europe.
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media meets with Ambassador of Andorra
Publishing date: 4 May 2021
On 4 May, Teresa Ribeiro, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM), met with Ambassador Jaume Serra Serra to discuss the media freedom situation in the Principality of Andorra and in the broader OSCE region.