News and press releases

VIENNA, 29 March 2018 – The closure of the Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper and appointing a trustee to head it is a major attack on the independence of this media outlet and another setback to media pluralism in Turkey, said Harlem Désir, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today following yesterday’s police raid on the newspaper’s office...

An OSCE-supported five-day cross-border training seminar on risk profiling at border checkpoints, which began in Karasu, Kazakhstan on 26 March 2018, is nearing conclusion.

Some 45 representatives from Kazakhstan’s Energy Ministry, international organizations and civil society sector gathered for an OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on revising the country’s Environmental Code on 29 March 2018 in Astana...

A two-day seminar organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana on the legal acts and mechanisms regulating the police’s work in combating domestic violence concluded on 29 March 2018 in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan...

The Head of the OSCE Mission to Skopje, Ambassador Nina Suomalainen, and the President of the Association of Journalists (AJM) Naser Selmani signed today in Skopje a memorandum of understanding, which envisages the organization of a series of activities aiming to improve the safety of journalists and to promote freedom of the media...

Some 100 anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing prosecutors and judges from 43 states and organizations came together in Strasbourg, France on 26 and 27 March 2018 for a workshop organized by the Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the Council of Europe's MONEYVAL monitoring body...

The OSCE Gender Section organized a workshop in Yerevan on 22 and 23 March 2018 to support Armenia’s ongoing process of drafting a national action plan to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security...