News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Presence in Albania marks International Human Rights Day
Publishing date: 8 December 2015
Ahead of International Human Rights Day, the OSCE Presence in Albania hosted an event in Tirana on 7 December 2015 with high state officials, partner institutions, diplomatic corps, civil society and media, highlighting the nexus between human rights and security and awarding a coalition of trafficking shelters for their work...
OSCE Principal Deputy Chief Monitor in Ukraine visits children’s hospital in Donetsk, assesses possible locations for observation post and stationary cameras
Publishing date: 8 December 2015
The Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Alexander Hug visited a children’s hospital in Donetsk on 7 December 2015 to discuss a request by its manager to reopen the premises. It was agreed that reopening the hospital was currently impossible without firm security guarantees from both sides...
Youth from both banks of Dniester/Nistru River take part in conflict resolution simulation for Model OSCE 2015
Publishing date: 8 December 2015
The OSCE Mission to Moldova brought together 31 students from Chisinau, Comrat and Tiraspol for the Model OSCE 2015, a three-day negotiation skills training and simulation game that engages youth in conflict resolution. The event was held from 3 to 6 December 2015, in Vadul lui Voda, a town by the Dniester/Nistru River...
OSCE concludes second series of workshops for secondary school teachers in Kazakhstan on energy efficiency
Publishing date: 8 December 2015
The second series of three OSCE-supported training seminars for secondary school teachers on energy efficiency concluded on 8 December 2015 in Kostanay, Kazakhstan...
Scholars and students from different religious traditions explore ways to confront economic inequality at OSCE outreach event in Rome
Publishing date: 8 December 2015
Confronting the growing economic inequality in the OSCE region and beyond was the topic of an inter-religious dialogue organized by the OSCE Secretariat’s Communication and Media Relations Department (COMMS), the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Angelicum’s Faculty of Social Sciences on 30 November 2015 in Rome...
OSCE Troika Ministers discuss Panel of Eminent Persons’ final report
Publishing date: 7 December 2015
The conclusions of the final report of the Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project were discussed at a side event on the margins of the 22nd OSCE Ministerial Council in Belgrade on 3 December 2015. Speakers included all three OSCE Troika Foreign Ministers as well as representatives of OSCE Delegations in Vienna and the OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions...
