News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Communiqué by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on free expression and the fight against terrorism
Publishing date: 2 September 2016
Terrorist attacks have shaken the OSCE region and beyond causing horror, fear, anger, grief and despair. The attacks have forcefully added to the OSCE participating States’ concerns about how to prevent and fight terrorism to keep our societies safe...
Local authorities in Hungary’s Miskolc should stop evictions, provide for durable housing solutions for Roma in line with international human rights standards, says ODIHR report
Publishing date: 1 September 2016
Local government authorities in the town of Miskolc, Hungary, should halt issuing eviction orders to Roma residents of social housing, and should promote adequate, sustainable, non-discriminatory solutions to housing segregation, says a field assessment visit report published by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 1 September 2016.
The sides should do their utmost to ease people’s suffering in eastern Ukraine, says OSCE Chief Monitor in Ukraine
Publishing date: 31 August 2016
People in eastern Ukraine deserve peace and the sides should do their utmost to ease the people’s suffering, said Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine Ertugrul Apakan while visiting Donetsk and Luhansk regions on 28-30 August 2016...
OSCE/ODIHR delivers training on human rights compliant policing of assemblies to Ukrainian police
Publishing date: 31 August 2016
International human rights standards, the key principles of assembly policing, the planning and decision making model, communication and accountability were the focus of a three-day training event organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in co-operation with the European Union Advisory Mission to Uraine (EUAM) between 29 and 31 August 2016 in Kyiv.
OSCE Office presents report on the impact of economic crisis on independent media in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 30 August 2016
Enhancing the professional development of journalists, training young reporters, making greater use of multimedia, establishing commercial departments as part of editorial offices, and creating an alternative system of newspaper distribution were some of the recommendations presented by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan on 27 August 2016 in their survey on the impact of the financial crisis on the country’s independent media...
OSCE Representative calls on authorities to thoroughly investigate the death of journalist Alexander Shchetinin and end impunity in Ukraine
Publishing date: 29 August 2016
VIENNA, 29 August 2016 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today called on Ukrainian authorities to carry out a thorough investigation into the death of journalist Alexander Shchetinin...
Public participation in environmental decision-making process in focus of OSCE supported expert meeting in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 29 August 2016
An OSCE Programme Office in Astana-supported expert group meeting on enhancing public participation in environmental decision-making through applying mechanisms under the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) took place on 29 August 2016 in Ust-Kamengorsk, East Kazakhstan...