News and press releases

From 18 to 20 September 2013, more than 180 journalists, representatives of civil society, government and academics, along with international experts, gathered in Tirana, Albania, to take part in the 3rd South East Europe Media Conference...

The OSCE Mission to Skopje today concluded a workshop for 15 public relations officers at the Interior Ministry that took place from 28 to 30 September 2013. The aim of the event was to help the police to more effectively provide information to the public in times of crisis...

OSCE Office in Yerevan in co-operation with the non-governmental organization Helsinki Committee of Armenia organized a workshop on principles of reporting about penal system, for journalists from 28 to 29 September 2013 in Tsaghkadzor...

A new handbook on observing the use of new technologies in elections, including electronic voting and automated counting, was launched by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 1 October 2013...

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) presented a revised and expanded edition of its guidelines for reviewing electoral legislation, during the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 30 September 2013...

On 26 September 2013 the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara, Vice-President and Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, Tánaiste and Irish Foreign and Trade Minister Eamon Gilmore and Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic met in New York as the OSCE Troika plus Serbia. They discussed the recent developments in the OSCE area ahead of the OSCE Ministerial Council scheduled for 5-6 December 2013 in Kyiv...

VIENNA, 27 September 2013 –OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today called on the Azerbaijani authorities to stop prosecution of journalists following the handing down of a prison sentence to newspaper editor Hilal Mamedov...