News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Bulgarian police to receive ODIHR-sponsored training on tackling hate crime
Publishing date: 15 February 2011
Bulgaria became the latest OSCE participating State to sign on to ODIHR’s Training Against Hate Crimes for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) programme, finalizing an agreement at a ceremony in Sofia on 15 February...
OSCE Mission helps improve reintegration of repatriated persons in Kosovo
Publishing date: 14 February 2011
Through a series of five regional roundtable meetings, the OSCE Mission in Kosovo is facilitating central-local level dialogue aimed at improving the reintegration of repatriated persons in Kosovo.
OSCE media freedom representative strongly condemns explosion at Bulgarian newspaper offices, urges thorough and swift investigation
Publishing date: 11 February 2011
VIENNA, 11 February 2011– Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today strongly condemned the bomb explosion outside the offices of the Galeria weekly in Sofia...
OSCE Office in Tajikistan calls for attackers of leading politician and journalist to be brought to justice
Publishing date: 11 February 2011
DUSHANBE, 11 February 2011 – The Head of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan, Ambassador Ivar Vikki, today condemned the violent attack on Hikmatullo Saifullozoda, member of the Political Council of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan and editor-in-chief of its newspaper, and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice...
OSCE and IOM launch training manual on labour migration
Publishing date: 10 February 2011
A manual for trainers and migration experts produced jointly by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) was launched on 10 February in Vienna.
OSCE Special Representative calls on media to take an active role in raising awareness of modern-day slavery
Publishing date: 9 February 2011
MOSCOW, 9 February 2011- The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, in a meeting at the Moscow Journalist Club in Moscow today, affirmed the important role of media professionals in strengthening anti-trafficking action...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator launches website for environmental education in Ukraine
Publishing date: 9 February 2011
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) has launched a website which offers secondary school teachers environmental education materials to promote the principles of sustainable development among young people in Ukraine...