News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Diplomats discuss quiet and preventive diplomacy at OSCE-supported course in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 30 November 2012
Young diplomats from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan discussed quiet and preventive diplomacy mechanisms at an OSCE-supported course that ended in Ashgabat on 30 November 2012...
OSCE supports international forum in Ukraine on case law of European Court of Human Rights
Publishing date: 30 November 2012
More than one hundred legal practitioners and scholars are taking part in an OSCE-supported international forum on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) that starts in western Ukrainian city of Lviv on 30 November 2012...
OSCE representative concerned over threat to media pluralism in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 30 November 2012
VIENNA, 29 November 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern today that legal proceedings initiated against several media outlets in Kazakhstan might severely undermine media pluralism in the country...
Secretary General of Organization of Islamic Co-operation addresses OSCE, stresses need to jointly counter religious intolerance
Publishing date: 30 November 2012
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Co-operation (OIC), addressed the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on 29 November 2012 and stressed the need to jointly address intolerance and discrimination on religious grounds...
OSCE/ODIHR presents electoral recommendations in Spain
Publishing date: 29 November 2012
A team from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) visited Madrid from 26 to 29 November 2012 to present the final report of the Election Assessment Mission for last year’s early parliamentary elections in Spain...
OSCE supports conference in Ukraine on administrative justice
Publishing date: 29 November 2012
An international conference on the impact of administrative justice for the development of public law started on 29 November 2012 in Kyiv with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU)...
OSCE launches network to engage men in fight against gender violence
Publishing date: 29 November 2012
The OSCE MenEngage network was launched on 29 November 2012 in Vienna as part of a larger advocacy effort during the global 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence...