News and press releases

An OSCE Mission-organized training on operational management for 21 mid-ranking Kosovo police officers concluded on 11 November 2011 in Vushtrri/Vučitrn...

VIENNA, 11 November 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today expressed concern about the increasing number of journalists harassed by police while covering “Occupy Wall Street” protests across the United States...

A one-day conference reviewing 2011 activities and plans for next year’s work of the OSCE-supported civilian mediation corps teams in Osh City and Osh Province in southern Kyrgyzstan took place on 11 November 2011...

OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met the Irish Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore in Dublin on 10 November 2011. They discussed Ireland’s 2012 Chairmanship of the OSCE as well as the upcoming OSCE Ministerial Council in Vilnius on 6 and 7 December.

The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, in her address to the Committee for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag on 9 November 2011 stressed the critical role that Parliaments can play in changing the perception of trafficking, especially in the field of labour exploitation...

The Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, Ambassador Philip Remler and Moldova’s Defence Minister Vitalie Marinuţa launched on 10 November 2011 an information campaign to raise public awareness of the dangers of explosive remnants of war...

On the occasion of the Day of the Neighborhood Police Inspector an OSCE-supported award ceremony for winners of a competition among inspectors of the Chuy and Talas Departments of the Interior Ministry took place on 10 November 2011 in Bishkek...