News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
States need to co-operate better to support social inclusion of trafficked persons, says OSCE Special Representative
Publishing date: 1 December 2011
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, addressed an expert seminar organized by the Polish Presidency of the European Union in Warsaw on 30 November 2011 on trafficking in human beings in the EU and Eastern Partnership countries...
OSCE Secretary General meets new President of Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 1 December 2011
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met the newly inaugurated President of Kyrgyzstan, Almazbek Atambayev, on 1 December 2011...
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports fight against child pornography on Internet
Publishing date: 1 December 2011
Some 20 law enforcement investigators from the police services of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia participated in a three-day regional training course on the use of new computer software to fight cybercrime...
EUBAM head addresses OSCE Permanent Council
Publishing date: 1 December 2011
The Head of the EU Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM), Udo Burkholder, addressed the OSCE Permanent Council on 1 December 2011. He outlined the activities and future priority areas of EUBAM, whose mandate was recently extended for the third time into 2015...
OSCE Special Representative on Gender Issues encourages states to combat gender-based violence
Publishing date: 1 December 2011
Wendy Patten, the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Gender Issues, in her report to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on 1 December 2011 stressed a need for effective implementation of legislation to combat domestic and other gender-based violence...
OSCE Chairperson welcomes participants of renewed official 5+2 talks on Transdniestrian settlement in Vilnius
Publishing date: 30 November 2011
The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, welcomed the participants of the renewed official 5+2 negotiations on the Transdniestrian settlement which started in Vilnius on 30 November 2011...
OSCE Centre supports training for customs officers on international trade facilitation standards
Publishing date: 30 November 2011
An OSCE-facilitated three-day regional training workshop for customs officers on implementing the World Customs Organization’s Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) programme concluded in Astana on 30 November. The AEO programme aims to facilitate and simplify customs processes and procedures, as well as to encourage public-private partnerships.