News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Skopje-supported project brings together students from different communities through workshops on ecology and nature preservation
Publishing date: 5 June 2018
More than 100 students, teachers, and representatives of civil society and the international community gathered on 5 June 2018 in Skopje for an event of a project sponsored by the OSCE-supported grants programme, the Building Bridges Fund, aimed at increasing interaction among students of different communities...
OSCE trains military officers on Vienna Document in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 5 June 2018
An OSCE-supported regional training seminar for some 35 military officers from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia, on the practical implementation of the Vienna Document 2011 and the implementation of confidence- and security-building measures concluded on 1 June 2018 in Astana...
OSCE PA Ad Hoc Committee on Migration Chair concerned over U.S. treatment of migrant children
Publishing date: 5 June 2018
COPENHAGEN, 5 June 2018 – Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Ad Hoc Committee on Migration Nahima Lanjri raised concerns today over reports in the United States that young migrant children are being separated from parents trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as recent news that nearly 1,500 migrant children are unaccounted for in the U.S. due to lax monitoring by the federal government...
OSCE Representative reiterates call to release Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko, following his conviction in Russia
Publishing date: 4 June 2018
VIENNA, 4 June 2018 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, today deplored the sentencing of Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko to 12 years in prison in the Russian Federation, and reiterated his call to release the journalist.
National stakeholders, international experts discuss establishment of national mechanism to prevent torture in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 1 June 2018
A draft law and regulations establishing a national preventive mechanism (NPM) to monitor all places of detention in Uzbekistan were the focus of a roundtable discussion in Tashkent on 31 May and 1 June 2018. The event was organized by the country’s ombuds institution – the Authorized Person of the
OSCE-supported change management training course for Montenegro’s parliamentary services held in Podgorica
Publishing date: 1 June 2018
A change management training course, the last in a series of workshops for the parliamentary services of Montenegro organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro in co-operation with the parliament, was held on 31 May and 1 June 2018 in Podgorica.
OSCE Programme Officer in Dushanbe commenced its annual awareness-raising campaign entitled Parents against Terrorism
Publishing date: 1 June 2018
On 28 May 2018 the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe commenced its annual awareness-raising campaign, Parents against Terrorism, with a series of one-day activities in the local communities of Shaartuz, Qabodiyon, Qushoniyon and Vakhsh in the Khatlon region of Tajikistan....