News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE-supported Building Bridges Fund presents 2018 grants on promoting interethnic understanding in schools
Publishing date: 6 February 2018
The OSCE-supported Building Bridges Fund has announced its annual grants to municipalities, schools, students, teachers and parents. The grants are used to organize activities that bring together students from all communities, who attend schools with different languages of instruction.
Law enforcement trainers from Afghanistan increase their expertise in combating illicit drugs in OSCE-organized course
Publishing date: 5 February 2018
Afghan law enforcement officers completed on 5 February 2018 an OSCE-organized two-week train-the-trainer course on combating illicit drug trafficking and drug-related crime, at the Russian training facility in Domodedovo, near Moscow...
Evaluation Seminar recaps five years of implementation of OSCE project on mentor networks for women’s empowerment
Publishing date: 5 February 2018
Women from the OSCE area face numerous challenges and barriers to fully participate in economic, social and political life. In 2013 the OSCE Gender Section, in co-operation with the Danish organization KVINFO, initiated a project on establishing mentor networks, with the ultimate goal to empower women in the OSCE region.
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports course on promoting good communication practices for Novi Pazar city officials
Publishing date: 2 February 2018
Some 75 city administration officials including city council members, public enterprise officials and providers of citizen services from Novi Pazar have successfully completed an OSCE-supported public relations and customer service training course held over a period of three months from November 2017 to January 2018. The final course in a series of three will take place in Kopaonik from 2 to 4 February.
OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe holds workshop on addressing domestic violence in Khuroson District, Tajikistan
Publishing date: 2 February 2018
A one-day workshop for a newly-established multi-disciplinary working group on addressing domestic violence issues concluded on 2 February 2018 in the Khuroson district of the province of Khatlon, Tajikistan. The event was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe...
ODIHR experts visit Serbia for consultations as part of Western Balkans election support project
Publishing date: 1 February 2018
A team of experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) were in Serbia from 29 January to 1 February for a consultation and planning visit within the framework of the ODIHR Support to Elections in the Western Balkans project. The ODIHR team met with senior
Trafficking in human beings focus of OSCE-supported training course in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publishing date: 1 February 2018
More than 30 prosecutors and judges from across Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) attended a training course on trafficking in human beings (THB), which concluded on 1 February 2018 in Sarajevo. The course was organized by the OSCE Mission to BiH, in co-operation with the Judicial and Prosecutorial Training Center of the Federation of BiH.