News and press releases

Twenty-one officials from the border guard, border police and customs agencies of Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan took part in an OSCE-organized seminar at the State Border Guard School in Medininkai in south-eastern part of Lithuania, which concluded on 9 November 2012...

The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, focused on the links between human trafficking and migration at a major international conference on combating trafficking and protecting victims in South East Europe...

The OSCE Office in Tajikistan completed on 9 November 2012 in Dushanbe its first joint patrol medical course for Afghan border police and Tajik border troops as part of a project to enhance the capacities of both structures to detect and prevent illegal cross-border movement.

OSCE participating States should protect and facilitate peaceful assemblies, and restrictions should be proportionate and only imposed when necessary, says a report released by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Vienna on 9 November 2012...

BAKU, 9 November 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today discussed media freedom issues with high-ranking officials and media as part of her official visit to Azerbaijan, during which she also visited journalists in detention...

An advanced training course on drug trafficking investigation organized by the OSCE Mission concluded on 9 November 2012 at the Kosovo Academy for Public Safety in Vushtrri/Vučitrn...

Five Central Asian university students completed a two-day visit to Vienna on 8 November 2012 during which they learned about the OSCE and its activities...