News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Project Co-ordinator assists development of remedy standards in human rights violation cases in Ukraine
Publishing date: 2 December 2011
A conference on state responsibilities and compensation standards in cases of human rights violations and mass torts was held in Kyiv on 2 December 2011, with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU)...
OSCE Mission in Kosovo helps promote media self-regulation
Publishing date: 2 December 2011
A regional conference on media self-regulation for press councils, media institutions, journalists’ associations and academia organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo concluded on 2 December 2011 in Prishtinë/Priština...
OSCE participating States make progress in updating Vienna Document to revitalize confidence and security building
Publishing date: 1 December 2011
A special meeting of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation, currently chaired by Kazakhstan, adopted a decision on 30 November 2011 on reissuing a document that encompasses key OSCE confidence- and security-building measures, the Vienna Document...
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...