News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE participates at regional conference of equality bodies hosted by Montenegrin Ombudsperson
Publishing date: 29 October 2019
Maryse Daviet, Head of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro participated in the opening of the fourth regional conference of equality bodies in South-Eastern Europe on 28 and 29 October 2019 in Podgorica. The conference was hosted by the Institution of the Protector of Human Rights and Freedoms of Montenegro...
OSCE Mission to Moldova enhances capacity and co-operation to promote rights of persons belonging to national minorities
Publishing date: 28 October 2019
The OSCE Mission to Moldova organized two workshops, 24 October in Chisinau and 25 October in Comrat, to enhance professional capacity and co-operation of state institutions working in the field of national minorities' rights. The events brought together some 50 representatives from the Agency for Interethnic Relations, the Ombudsperson’s Office, the Equality Council, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research as well as ethno-cultural and national minority organizations and regional authorities from the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia...
Kyrgyzstan hosts regional meeting on export control for licensing and customs authorities in Central Asia
Publishing date: 28 October 2019
The Ministry of Economy of the Kyrgyz Republic, in co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, organized a three-day meeting on export control from 23 to 25 October 2019 in Aral, Kyrgyzstan. The meeting brought together over thirty licensing, customs and other governmental authorities of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan...
OSCE Media Freedom Representative welcomes release of several journalists in Turkey, calls for further reforms that ensure better legal protection
Publishing date: 25 October 2019
VIENNA, 25 October 2019 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, welcomed today the release of several journalists in Turkey.
OSCE Media Freedom Representative Désir and OSCE Head of Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina Kavalec strongly condemn threat against Žurnal journalist
Publishing date: 25 October 2019
VIENNA / SARAJEVO, 25 October 2019 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, and the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Kathleen Kavalec, strongly condemned today a death threat sent to Avdo Avdić, a journalist of the Žurnal news website...
OSCE and UN Office on Drugs and Crime deliver training course on countering terrorist financing in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 25 October 2019
A three-day training course aimed at further strengthening the capacity of Uzbekistan to counter terrorist financing concluded in Tashkent on 25 October 2019...
OSCE Mission to Montenegro organizes workshop on security sector oversight for parliamentarians
Publishing date: 25 October 2019
Parliamentary oversight of the security sector was the topic of a two-day workshop organized in Podgorica by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro for members of the country’s parliament and parliamentary staff on 24 and 25 October 2019...