News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Project Co-ordinator and EU support public discussion of electoral reform in Ukraine
Publishing date: 24 October 2011
A nation-wide campaign to discuss election legislation reform in Ukraine was launched on 23 October 2011 with support from a project funded by the European Union and carried out by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU)...
16th IPRM meeting takes place in Dvani
Publishing date: 24 October 2011
The 16th IPRM meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism took place in Dvani on 21 October. The constructive meeting was co-facilitated by the European Union Monitoring Mission and the OSCE...
OSCE/ODIHR and partners promote better legislation and regulation in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus at Tbilisi conference
Publishing date: 21 October 2011
Tools and mechanisms to make legislative processes transparent and laws more effective were discussed at a two-day conference, co-organized by OSCE/ODIHR, on 20 and 21 October 2011 in Tbilisi...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities visits NDC Skopje, winner of 2011 Max van der Stoel Award
Publishing date: 21 October 2011
The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek visited the Rajko Zinzifov primary school in the Čair municipality of Skopje on 20 October 2011...
Ukraine’s draft parliamentary election law can be made fairer, say ODIHR and the Venice Commission
Publishing date: 21 October 2011
Ukraine’s draft law on parliamentary elections could go further to ensure fully democratic elections, says a joint opinion by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission...
OSCE Mission supports consultations on decriminalization of libel in Serbia
Publishing date: 20 October 2011
Some 20 judges, prosecutors and representatives of the Journalists’ Association of Serbia and the Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia gathered on 19 October 2011 in Belgrade to discuss the decriminalization of libel...
OSCE meeting in Vienna to discuss implementation of commitments, future priorities in economic and environmental dimension
Publishing date: 17 October 2011
Assessment of the implementation of economic and environmental commitments by the OSCE participating States and identification of priorities for future work is the focus of the Economic and Environmental Dimension Implementation Meeting, which started at the Hofburg in Vienna on 17 October 2011...