News and press releases

The OSCE Mission to Skopje, in co-operation with the Intelligence Academy of the Turkish National Police are organizing training for 18 police officers from the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence of the country’s Interior Ministry from 23-27 April 2012...

A support and assistance centre for victims of domestic violence opened in Ashgabat in April 2012 with support from the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat...

The OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier will pay visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina from 23 to 24 April 2012 on the occasion of the International Donors' Conference "Durable solutions for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons" taking place on April 24 in Sarajevo...

An OSCE-initiated discussion on the topic “Women in Sport – Towards Enhancing Equality” aimed at raising awareness on challenges that exist for women in sports and highlighting the commitment of the OSCE to promote gender equality, took place in Vienna on 20 April 2012...

The first of four training courses on using the Internet and new media tools for Kazakh-language journalists began on 20 April, 2012 in Shymkent in southern Kazakhstan...

VIENNA, 20 April 2012-- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed her concern over the brutal attack on Lukpan Akhmedyarov, a journalist with Kazakhstan’s Uralskaya Nedelya newspaper, and asked the authorities to promptly investigate the attack...

The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth, and Defence Minister Arben Imami signed an agreement on 16 April 2012 for the disposal of more than 80 tonnes of hazardous chemical products...