News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE media representative calls on Tajik authorities to lift ban on Facebook and news websites
Publishing date: 7 March 2012
VIENNA, 7 March 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, appealed to the Government of Tajikistan today to reverse instructions to block the Facebook social media platform and four websites reporting on social and political affairs...
Norway’s internet voting pilot project held in an open manner but could have benefited from more formalized procedures, says ODIHR report
Publishing date: 6 March 2012
Norway’s internet voting project for the 12 September local government elections was conducted in an open manner, but the system could have benefited from more formalized procedures, says the final report of the ODIHR Election Expert Team...
OSCE Office supports Armenia’s governance reform
Publishing date: 6 March 2012
Centralised data transfer system, measures to implement state labour oversight, control of technical security were discussed at the Inter-agency Inspection Reform Council held in Yerevan on 6 March 2012 with the OSCE Office’s participation...
OSCE Office and Yerevan State University sign a co-operation agreement
Publishing date: 2 March 2012
The Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, Ambassador Andrey Sorokin and Rector of the Yerevan State University, Aram Simonyan, signed on 2 March 2012 a Memorandum of Understanding on establishing a Sustainable Development Centre in the Yerevan State University...
Taking the long-term view: why quiet diplomacy is needed in modern times
Publishing date: 1 March 2012
Quiet diplomacy has an important role in addressing the root causes of conflicts, stressed the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Knut Vollebaek in his address to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Winter Session 2012 on 24 February 2012...
OSCE Mission to Skopje expands school safety project
Publishing date: 1 March 2012
Starting in March 2012, the Police Development Department of the OSCE Mission to Skopje is helping to introduce the School Safety project in other municipalities in the country, after having successfully implemented the project in the municipality of Kumanovo...
OSCE Special Representative meets Romanian authorities to further co-operation on combating human trafficking
Publishing date: 29 February 2012
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, on a visit to Bucharest on 28 February 2012, met with high-level authorities, including the State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Alina Bica, and the State Secretary of the Ministry of Administration and Interior, Joan Dascalu...