News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports trip of Ukrainian experts to Norway to learn about ways of ensuring equal rights of men and women, combatting gender-based violence
Publishing date: 11 November 2013
Representatives of Ukraine’s Interior and Social Policy Ministries and the Ukrainian Ombudsperson’s office visited Oslo from 4 to 8 November 2013 to learn about the experience of their Norwegian counterparts ensuring equality of men and women, and about the mechanisms for combating gender-based violence. The study trip was organised by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine...
ICTY material made available to prosecutors’ offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with OSCE support
Publishing date: 11 November 2013
The first of a series of training events for judicial experts on the Electronic Disclosure Suite (EDS) of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) held by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Office of the Trial Prosecutor of the ICTY started on 11 November 2013...
OSCE supports visit of senior Afghan police officers to Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 11 November 2013
A delegation of senior Afghan police officers is participating in an OSCE-supported peer-to-peer visit to Kyrgyzstan from 11 to 15 November 2013...
OSCE Secretary General, in Moscow, discusses future agenda for OSCE, protracted conflicts, Afghanistan post-2014
Publishing date: 8 November 2013
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier paid an official visit to Moscow from 6 to 8 November 2013. He met with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Deputy Minister Alexey Meshkov and other senior officials, as well as with Nikolay Bordyuzha, Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
Online journalism the focus of OSCE-organized training course for journalism students in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 8 November 2013
ASHGABAT, 8 November 2013 – Twenty-five journalism students from the Magtymugly Turkmen State University completed an OSCE-organized course on online journalism today
OSCE supports entrepreneurship capacity-building workshops in Nakhchivan
Publishing date: 8 November 2013
Access to finance, tax regulations and cross border trades have been the main topics of discussions at the OSCE-supported workshops on entrepreneurship capacity-building in Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (NAR) of Azerbaijan. The event, which took place from 6 to 8 November, was organized by the OSCE Office in Baku, in conjunction with the Entrepreneurs Confederation and Foreign Affairs Office of NAR.
OSCE/ODIHR supports dialogue on improving system for resolving election disputes in Serbia
Publishing date: 8 November 2013
Improving the system for resolving election-related disputes in Serbia was the focus of a roundtable discussion organized by the OSCE Mission to Serbia in co-operation with the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) on 6 November 2013, in Belgrade.