News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
EUBAM head addresses OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 1 December 2011
The Head of the EU Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM), Udo Burkholder, addressed the OSCE Permanent Council on 1 December 2011. He outlined the activities and future priority areas of EUBAM, whose mandate was recently extended for the third time into 2015...
OSCE Special Representative on Gender Issues encourages states to combat gender-based violence
Publishing date: 1 December 2011
Wendy Patten, the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Gender Issues, in her report to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on 1 December 2011 stressed a need for effective implementation of legislation to combat domestic and other gender-based violence...
OSCE Chairperson welcomes participants of renewed official 5+2 talks on Transdniestrian settlement in Vilnius
Publishing date: 30 November 2011
The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, welcomed the participants of the renewed official 5+2 negotiations on the Transdniestrian settlement which started in Vilnius on 30 November 2011...
OSCE Centre supports training for customs officers on international trade facilitation standards
Publishing date: 30 November 2011
An OSCE-facilitated three-day regional training workshop for customs officers on implementing the World Customs Organization’s Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) programme concluded in Astana on 30 November. The AEO programme aims to facilitate and simplify customs processes and procedures, as well as to encourage public-private partnerships.
OSCE supports border management workshop for border guards and customs officers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 29 November 2011
A two-and-a-half day workshop for border service and customs officials began in Merke, on Kazakhstan's southern border with Kyrgyzstan, on 28 November 2011. The OSCE Centre in Astana organized the seminar in co-operation with the EU/UNDP Border Management Programme for Central Asia, the International Organization for Migration and the border services and customs agencies of Kazakhstan...
OSCE trains online journalists on both sides of Nistru/Dniestr River
Publishing date: 29 November 2011
VADUL-LUI-VODĂ, Moldova, 29 November 2011 – Journalistic and managerial skills for running sustainable Internet media are the focus of a two-day OSCE training seminar that started today in Vadul-lui-Vodă, a town on the Nistru/Dniestr River outside of Chişinău...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine trains social service providers on helping victims of human trafficking and domestic violence
Publishing date: 28 November 2011
The first of two training seminars to improve the social services provided to victims of human trafficking and domestic violence began in Kyiv on 28 November 2011 with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU).