News and press releases

The 23rd Annual Implementation and Assessment Meeting will take place in Vienna from 5 to 6 March 2013 to review how confidence- and security-building measures (CSBMs) are being implemented...

From 28 February to 2 March 2013, the OSCE Office in Baku is holding a training session on complying with the rights of suspects and accused persons in line with OSCE commitments and other international standards, including the European Convention on Human Rights...

An Arabic translation of the OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security is now available.

On 28 February and 1 March 2013, delegations from the Serbian and Romanian Governments met for the second time in the Netherlands for informal consultations under the auspices of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM), Ambassador Knut Vollebaek...

Eighteen presidents of Montenegrin courts and three members of the Judicial Council attended a two-day seminar on court management from 28 February to 1 March 2013 in Becici, as part of a training programme for members of the judiciary on fighting corruption...

From 18 February to 1 March 2013, the Monitoring Unit of the OSCE Mission to Skopje held roundtable discussions in 18 municipalities between mayoral candidates, leaders of local branches of political parties involved in the elections process, representatives of Municipal Electoral Commissions, Regional Representatives of the Ombudsman and Sectors for Internal Affairs...

The OSCE Office in Baku and UNHCR held two workshops from 25 to 28 February 2013 on combating human trafficking and forced labour in Azerbaijan...