News and press releases

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...

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...

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...

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...

The OSCE Mission to Moldova encourages students from Gagauzia and Transdniestria to apply before 6 April 2012 for scholarships to study at the Chişinău School of Advanced Journalism run by the Independent Journalism Centre...

Building the capacity of the territorial branches of Uzbekistan’s Inter-agency Anti-trafficking Commission to sustainably and systematically combat human trafficking and to improve co-ordination between the different actors is the focus of a two-day workshop that started at the General Prosecutor’s office in Tashkent on 12 March 2012...

A three-day workshop on assessing the risk of money laundering started in Bishkek on 13 March 2012. The event was organized by the OSCE, the World Bank and the UNODC in co-operation with Kyrgyzstan’s State Financial Intelligence Service...