News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Skopje completes training of legal practitioners on new criminal procedure
Publishing date: 29 November 2012
The OSCE Mission to Skopje is holding its final basic training course for legal practitioners and law enforcement officials on the new adversarial and parties-driven criminal procedure from 29 November till 2 December 2012...
OSCE Secretary General, in London, meets Foreign Secretary
Publishing date: 28 November 2012
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met UK Foreign Secretary William Hague in London on 28 November 2012...
Transdniestrian settlement negotiations started in Dublin
Publishing date: 28 November 2012
DUBLIN, 28 November 2012 – Official negotiations on the Transdniestrian settlement started in Dublin today. The three-day meeting brings together representatives of the sides, mediators and observers in the negotiations – Moldova, Transdniestria, the OSCE, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the US and the EU...
OSCE Secretary General discusses co-operation with EU at European Parliament in Brussels
Publishing date: 27 November 2012
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier exchanged views with representatives of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs at a joint meeting of the Subcommittees on Security and Defence and on Human Rights in Brussels on 26 November 2012...
OSCE promotes discussion on democratic reform process in Uzbekistan’s regions
Publishing date: 27 November 2012
Challenges faced by the regions is the focus of a two-day workshop started on 27 November 2012 in Nukus, the capital of Uzbekistan’s autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator supports seminars on civil society registration procedures
Publishing date: 27 November 2012
The first of five seminars on new registration procedures for civil society organizations started in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on 27 November 2012 with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine...
Improve responses to hate crimes against disabled people, say participants of ODIHR workshop in Oslo
Publishing date: 26 November 2012
More needs to be done to improve responses to hate-motivated crimes against people with disabilities, said participants at a joint workshop organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombudsperson in Norway, in Oslo on 26 November 2012...