News and press releases

PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA, 15 September 2021 – As we mark World Democracy Day, we affirm the principle of the people’s expression of free will, be it at the ballot box, or through media, as a basis of authority for any form of government.

A two-day online training seminar on facilitation of independent monitoring respecting the rights of persons with disabilities, concluded on 14 September 2021.

A four-day course aimed at further strengthening Albania’s capacity to counter the financing of terrorism concluded on 11 September 2021 in Pogradec, Albania. The course was organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, with the support of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and the OSCE Presence in Albania.

The OSCE Presence in Albania is making further progress in its efforts to help the Albanian Public Broadcasting Service (Radio Televizioni Shqiptar- RTSH) establish a training centre for young RTSH reporters and journalism students.

On 9 and 10 September 2021, the OSCE convened the first meeting of the Advisory and Co-ordination Board established as part of the OSCE project, Enhancing Criminal Justice Capacities for Combating Gender-based Violence — GBV — in South-Eastern Europe.

An OSCE-supported awareness-raising seminar on Kazakhstan’s new Environmental Code took place on 8 September 2021. The event was conducted by online format and was attended by some 90 representatives from the Parliament, municipal ecology departments, non-governmental organizations and the private sector.

A two-day seminar on promoting e-business and e-commerce and defining the role of government in elaboration of legislation to promote digitalization was held online on 9 and 10 September 2021.