News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission supports Serbian Ministry of Interior in preparing its first Serious and Organized Crime Threat Assessment
Publishing date: 5 January 2016
Serbia’s first Serious and Organized Crime Threat Assessment (SOCTA) was published on the website of the Serbian Interior Ministry on 30 December 2015. The document, developed with the support of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, is a strategic overview of serious and organized crime in the country, including drugs, irregular migration, human trafficking, money laundering, corruption and cybercrime...
Strengthening dialogue, trust and security in the OSCE region at the heart of German Chairmanship in 2016
Publishing date: 1 January 2016
BERLIN, 1 January 2016- As it takes over the rotating OSCE Chairmanship in 2016, Germany’s top priorities will be rebuilding trust among participating States and maintaining efforts for achieving a political solution to the conflict in and around Ukraine, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier said today.
Another prison sentence handed down to a journalist in Azerbaijan worrying, OSCE Representative says
Publishing date: 29 December 2015
VIENNA, 29 December 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today raised the issue of another prison sentence handed down to a journalist in Azerbaijan after yesterday’s jailing of Rauf Mirkadyrov...
OSCE-supported Awards recognize best practices in local governance in Montenegrin municipalities
Publishing date: 29 December 2015
Awards recognizing best practices in local governance in Montenegro’s municipalities over the course of this year were presented at a ceremony organized on 28 December 2015 in Podgorica by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro in co-operation with the Union of Municipalities and the Ministry of Interior...
OSCE media freedom representative calls on authorities in Kazakhstan to stop persecuting independent journalists
Publishing date: 26 December 2015
VIENNA, 26 December 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said the recent detention of two journalists in Kazakhstan pose a direct threat to media freedom in the country...
OSCE promotes human rights protection though improving standards of judicial education in Ukraine
Publishing date: 23 December 2015
An international conference on safeguarding human rights through national standards for judicial education was co-organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine on 18 December 2015 in Kyiv, bringing together local judges, judges of the European Court of Human Rights, experts, and representatives of academia, international organizations and national NGOs...
Courts should take public interest into account in cases against journalists, says OSCE Representative, following trespassing case in Austria
Publishing date: 22 December 2015
VIENNA, 22 December 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said that a recent court ruling in Austria, ordering an online news portal to pay 2,000 Euros to the landlord of an asylum centre for trespassing, can affect the media’s ability to cover events of high public interest...