News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Religious communities should be able to register freely and without restriction, say participants at OSCE human rights conference
Publishing date: 28 September 2011
Participants at the OSCE's annual human rights conference in Warsaw urged governments not to use registration procedures to prevent religious communities from exercising their rights to freedom of religion or belief...
OSCE/ODIHR launches new guides on freedom of assembly and association
Publishing date: 27 September 2011
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented two new guides to promote respect for the freedom of assembly and association in the margins of the annual OSCE human rights conference in Warsaw on 27 September 2011...
OSCE survey: We want to hear your views on security
Publishing date: 27 September 2011
We want to hear your views on security and the role of the OSCE. Please take 5 minutes to complete our short survey. Click here to take the survey.
Media freedom representative urges governments to keep Internet free, protect journalists against violence
Publishing date: 26 September 2011
The Internet has fundamentally changed societies for the better and should remain free, said OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, as she addressed diplomats and representatives of human rights non-governmental organizations at the annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting...
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports community policing training
Publishing date: 26 September 2011
Some 50 police officers from 27 regional police directorates will be trained in community policing principles during a two- week course for Community Liaison Officers, in Vrnjacka Banja from 26 September to 7 October 2011. The OSCE Mission to Serbia is holding the event together with the Interior Ministry...
OSCE Centre trains interior ministry troops at Kambar-Ata 2 hydropower station
Publishing date: 26 September 2011
A 10-day training course supported by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek to enhance security of the Kambar –Ata 2 hydropower station in central Kyrgyzstan started on 26 September 2011...
OSCE human rights chief welcomes launch of hate crime information for Polish police
Publishing date: 22 September 2011
Polish police officers will be able to better identify hate crimes and seek support for victims guided by a new hate crime information leaflet published today...