News and press releases

The role of the Aarhus Centre in facilitating co-operation between various environmental stakeholders was discussed at a roundtable meeting, organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, the Sustainable Development and Tourism Ministry and the Environmental Protection Agency, in Podgorica on 19 May 2011...

A four-day OSCE-supported train-the-trainers event on women’s leadership and political party participation is taking place in Issyk-Kul province, Kyrgyzstan, from 21 to 24 May. It begins with a one-day training session for the Women’s Parliamentary Caucus and is followed by a three-day intensive course for representatives of eight major political parties.

In an effort to improve access to students’ services for non-Albanian communities, the OSCE Mission in Kosovo supported an internship, from 2 to 13 May, at Dublin City University, Ireland, for the Co-ordinator of the Student and Youth Support Centre of the University in Mitrovica/Mitrovicë- Gračanica/Graçanicë Campus...

High-level representatives of the Environment and Security (ENVSEC) Initiative Partners met in Vienna on 18 May 2011 for the first Management Board meeting since the OSCE assumed its 2011 chairmanship in the six-agency partnership...

According to the final assessment report published by ODIHR on 16 May, Estonia’s 6 March parliamentary elections were “conducted in an environment characterized by respect for fundamental rights and freedoms and a high degree of trust in the impartiality of the election administration...

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning (MESP) and UN-Habitat will conclude a series of five regional roundtables on a Strategy and Action Plan for the Prevention and Regularization of Informal Settlements 2011- 2015, on 20 May 2011, in Prishtinë/Priština...

A donor co-ordination meeting on electoral assistance chaired by the OSCE Centre with the participation of the EU and the UN offices in Kyrgyzstan took place at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek on 17 May...