News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Office in Tajikistan supports training courses on Improvised Explosive Devices Defeat
Publishing date: 10 November 2015
The second training course facilitated by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan on Improvised Explosive Devices Defeat (IED-D) for Tajik and Afghan specialists concluded in Dushanbe on 5 November 2015...
OSCE-supported workshop focuses on environmental challenges in Armenia
Publishing date: 10 November 2015
The OSCE Office in Yerevan in partnership with Yerevan State University’s Centre on Sustainable Development organized a workshop on problems and solutions related to sustainable use of natural resources and environmental planning in Armenia on 10 November 2015 in the Armenian capital...
Entrepreneurship and developing business ideas in focus of OSCE-supported training course for women in Montenegro’s Tivat municipality
Publishing date: 10 November 2015
The challenges and opportunities for female entrepreneurship, institutional support, development of business ideas and time management were the topics of a training course organized in Montenegro’s municipality of Tivat on 6 and 7 November 2015, with the support of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro...
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, based on information received as of 19:30hrs, 9 November 2015
Publishing date: 10 November 2015
The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements”, including the Addendum. Its monitoring was restricted by the parties and security considerations. The SMM visited the “LPR”-controlled Dolzhansky (84km south-east of Luhansk) border crossing point at the Ukrainian-Russian Federation border...
OSCE Mission to Serbia and ODIHR prepare with civil society partners to follow elections to judicial self-administration bodies
Publishing date: 9 November 2015
The laws, rules and procedures for jointly assessing the upcoming elections of judges and prosecutors to the High Judicial Council and State Prosecutorial Council were the focus of a workshop in Belgrade on 6 November 2015, organized by the OSCE Mission to Serbia, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM) NGO...
OSCE supports energy efficiency workshop for secondary school teachers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 9 November 2015
An OSCE-supported training seminar on the topic of energy efficiency for school teachers took place on 9 November 2015 in Oskemen, Kazakhstan. The event was the last in a series of three sessions that trained over 300 secondary school teachers from Astana, Almaty and the Eastern Kazakhstan region...
Media’s independence must be respected, OSCE Representative says following court ruling on Rustavi 2 TV in Georgia
Publishing date: 6 November 2015
VIENNA, 6 November 2015 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today said that a court ruling in Georgia ordering the replacement of the management at television channel Rustavi 2, poses a threat to media freedom as it threatens the independence of a major media outlet’s editorial policy...