News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission in Kosovo invites civil society to submit project propoals
Publishing date: 3 January 2012
The OSCE Mission in Kosovo invites civil society organizations in Gjilan/Gnjilane and Prizren regions to submit project proposals on the empowerment of vulnerable groups, public participation in municipal decision making or improving access to municipal services...
OSCE Secretary General discusses tackling organized crime and drugs trafficking with UNODC
Publishing date: 28 December 2011
Meeting with the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Yury Fedotov, on 22 December 2011 in Vienna, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier discussed the prospects for closer co-operation to tackle organized crime and drugs trafficking...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine donates IT equipment to help Interior Ministry to combat cybercrime, human trafficking
Publishing date: 27 December 2011
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) handed over computers, monitors and docking stations to the country’s Interior Ministry on 27 December 2011...
OSCE launches public awareness campaign on citizen-state interaction in Ukraine
Publishing date: 22 December 2011
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) launched a public awareness campaign on communicating with public officials on 22 December 2011...
Sharing experiences with the Baltic states to reform the Moldovan Prosecution Service
Publishing date: 22 December 2011
The Moldovan prosecution service is undergoing reform to strengthen its independence and effectiveness. On 16 December 2011 a group of experts from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania shared their experiences with their counterparts at a conference in Chişinău as part of a joint project by the OSCE Mission to Moldova and the Prosecutor General’s Office on support for prosecution service reform and capacity building based on the experience of the Baltic States...
OSCE Presence in Albania provides Roma and Egyptian schoolchildren with education material
Publishing date: 21 December 2011
The OSCE Presence in Albania provided basic education materials to more than 300 children from the Roma and Egyptian communities in the south-eastern town of Korça...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes Constitutional Court decision in Hungary, concerned over silencing of independent radio
Publishing date: 21 December 2011
VIENNA, 21 December 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today welcomed a Constitutional Court decision that declared unconstitutional several key provisions of Hungary’s 2010 media law. At the same time she expressed concern over the silencing of an independent political talk and news radio in Budapest...