News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Secretary General meets Netherlands Foreign Minister Koenders and addresses climate change challenges at Hague Conference
Publishing date: 3 November 2015
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier visited The Hague from 2 to 3 November 2015, where he addressed the Planetary Security Conference on ‘Peace and Cooperation in Times of Climate Change and Global Environmental Challenges’ organized by the Dutch Foreign Affairs Ministry...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine alerts public of dangers of trafficking in human beings
Publishing date: 2 November 2015
From 1 November 2015 city lights and billboards at bus and railway stations in 24 major cities across Ukraine, including the capital Kyiv, are featuring posters warning the public about the traps used by human traffickers to lure their victims. The posters are part of a national anti-trafficking awareness-raising campaign launched with the support of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine...
OSCE Office supports discussion on challenges of community policing and its development in Armenia
Publishing date: 2 November 2015
The OSCE Office in Yerevan, in co-operation with the Armenian Police, on 2-3 November 2015, organized a roundtable discussion in Tsaghkadzor, Kotayk region, to wrap up a two-year project on facilitating community policing development in Armenia, which was implemented by the National Centre for Legal Research NGO...
OSCE-supported training course focuses on economic empowerment of women in Montenegro’s Bijelo Polje municipality
Publishing date: 2 November 2015
The economic empowerment of unemployed women in Montenegro’s municipality of Bijelo Polje was the topic of a training course on 30-31 October 2015 supported by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro...
OSCE Mission to Moldova brings together lawyers working to safeguard the rights of children on both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River
Publishing date: 2 November 2015
The OSCE Mission to Moldova organized the third Human Rights Club meeting this year for lawyers from both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River. The event, hosted by the Mission on 30 October 2015 in Tiraspol, brought together some 25 lawyers to discuss legal approaches to safeguarding the rights of children living on both banks of the Dniester/Nistru River...
OSCE supports presentation of report on human rights in southern Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 2 November 2015
The OSCE Programme Office in Astana supported the second presentation of the Report on the Situation with Human Rights in Kazakhstan by the Human Rights Commission under the President on 30 October 2015, this time in Shymkent, southern Kazakhstan. The report covers the period from April 2014 to April 2015, and was published in the Kazakh, Russian and English languages with the OSCE’s support...
Establishing dialogue across the country: Kyiv Youth Contact group starts developing projects to foster dialogue in Ukraine
Publishing date: 30 October 2015
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) together with the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine held a workshop on 24 October for the Youth Contact Group in Kyiv...