News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Skopje extends school safety project
Publishing date: 1 October 2012
The OSCE Mission to Skopje in co-operation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced on 1 October 2012 the extension of the school safety project “My Safety Depends on Me” for the school year 2012-13...
Forum on humanitarian protection in cross-border emergencies held at OSCE Border Management Staff College
Publishing date: 1 October 2012
An international forum on border management in humanitarian emergencies was held at the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe from 24 to 28 September 2012. It was co-organized with the Tokyo-based UNHCR Regional Centre for Emergency Management...
OSCE and partners call for enhanced co-ordination in combating violence against women
Publishing date: 28 September 2012
Greater co-operation among international and national organizations is needed to prevent and combat violence against women, said participants at a meeting on the margins of the OSCE’s annual human rights conference in Warsaw on 28 September 2012...
New Armenian police website launched with OSCE support
Publishing date: 28 September 2012
The new official website of the Armenian police, which was developed with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, was launched on 28 September 2012...
Participants at OSCE human rights conference urge governments to tackle root causes of racism and violence against Roma
Publishing date: 27 September 2012
Governments must take more decisive steps to counter anti-Roma rhetoric and violence, said participants at the annual OSCE human rights conference in Warsaw on 27 September 2012...
OSCE media freedom representative deplores Italian criminal defamation ruling, urges law reform
Publishing date: 27 September 2012
VIENNA, 27 September 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today called on the Italian authorities to reform libel laws following an Italian high court ruling upholding the criminal conviction and 14-month prison sentence imposed on Allessandro Sallusti, former editor of the newspaper Libero...
OSCE Mission in Kosovo trains municipal officials on assistance available to repatriated persons
Publishing date: 27 September 2012
On 25 September 2012 the OSCE Mission and the Kosovo Employment Promotion Agency concluded a series of two-day workshops on accessing income generation assistance from the central-level reintegration fund for municipal officers for communities and returns (MOCRs) from 25 municipalities...