News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Moldova supports discussion on Gagauz minority’s language rights
Publishing date: 19 March 2012
A set of recommendations on how to ensure the language rights of the Gagauz minority of Moldova was presented on 29 March 2012 at an OSCE-hosted roundtable meeting in Chisinau...
OSCE helps Chişinău and Tiraspol remove and store radioactive waste
Publishing date: 16 March 2012
The OSCE Mission supported the removal of radioactive industrial waste from an enterprise based in Rybnitsa on the left bank of Dniestr/Nistru to a safe storage facility outside Chişinău on 15 March 2012...
OSCE trains Turkmenistan police trainers on the protection of human rights in countering terrorism
Publishing date: 15 March 2012
Police trainers in Ashgabat completed a three-day course on 15 March organized by the OSCE to help train future police officers in the protection of human rights while countering terrorism...
OSCE media representative welcomes release of jailed Kazakhstani editor
Publishing date: 15 March 2012
VIENNA, 15 March 2011- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, welcomed today the release from custody of Igor Vinyavsky, the Chief Editor of Kazakhstan’s Vzglyad newspaper...
OSCE to support Armenia’s Ombudsman’s Office ahead of elections
Publishing date: 15 March 2012
The Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, Ambassador Andrey Sorokin, and Armenia’s Human Rights Defender Karen Andreasyan, launched today a European Union-funded project to enhance the capacities of the Human Rights Defender’s Office (HRDO) in advance of the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections in 2012 and 2013...
OSCE Special Representative makes recommendations on human trafficking to Canada
Publishing date: 15 March 2012
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings Maria Grazia Giammarinaro addressed the Government of Canada with recommendations aimed at advancing anti-trafficking action on 15 March 2012...
ODIHR offers assistance and expertise at Dushanbe event on electoral law, including voter lists
Publishing date: 14 March 2012
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights provided support and expertise to a roundtable in Dushanbe on 14 March on measures to develop effective links between population and voter registration in Tajikistan, as well as on reforms to the country’s legal electoral framework...