News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports study visit to US for Turkmenistan police and drug enforcement officials
Publishing date: 17 September 2012
Four senior police and drug enforcement officials from Turkmenistan participated in an OSCE-supported study visit to the United States that concluded on 14 September 2012...
OSCE Centre supports study tour on political party systems
Publishing date: 14 September 2012
A group of 12 political parties’ activists, government officials as well as representatives of civil society and think tanks from Kazakhstan took part in an OSCE Centre-supported five-day study tour to Poland which concluded in Warsaw on 14 September 2012.
OSCE Academy in Bishkek hosts seminar on security in Central Asia
Publishing date: 14 September 2012
The fifth annual Central Asian security seminar took place at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek on 13 and 14 September 2012...
Gender and economy the focus of Prague event
Publishing date: 14 September 2012
The OSCE’s Gender Section held a discussion on gender and economy on the margins of the 20th Annual Economic and Environmental Forum in Prague on 14 September 2012...
OSCE Centre in Kazakhstan supports trade and transport facilitation
Publishing date: 14 September 2012
A two-day high-level meeting on international trade, trade facilitation and aid for trade was held on 13 and 14 September 2012 in Almaty with the OSCE’s participation...
Lawsuit against Hungarian journalist can have chilling effect on Internet freedom, warns OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 12 September 2012
VIENNA, 12 September 2012 – Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today warned that the lawsuit initiated by the official Hungarian News Agency against journalist György Balavany can constrain media pluralism on the Internet...
OSCE supports human rights monitoring in pre-trial detention facilities and penitentiaries in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 12 September 2012
A report on monitoring human rights in remand prisons and penitentiaries under Kyrgyzstan’s state penitentiary service GSIN was presented at a roundtable discussion on 12 September 2012 in Bishkek...