News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission to Skopje promotes co-operation of local and central authorities with Ombudsman
Publishing date: 16 February 2011
The OSCE Mission to Skopje has launched a series of four roundtable meetings on the role of the Ombudsman to promote the use of the Ombudsman institution
OSCE Chairperson representative in Minsk for meetings
Publishing date: 16 February 2011
Lithuanian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Evaldas Ignatavičius, representing the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, is in Minsk on 16 February 2011 for meetings with Belarusian officials and representatives of civil society...
ODIHR to send assessment mission for Finland's parliamentary elections
Publishing date: 16 February 2011
ODIHR will send an assessment mission for the 17 April parliamentary elections in Finland. An advance team of experts visited the country from 25 to 27 January to assess the pre-election environment and preparations for the elections.
Bulgarian police to receive ODIHR-sponsored training on tackling hate crime
Publishing date: 15 February 2011
Bulgaria became the latest OSCE participating State to sign on to ODIHR’s Training Against Hate Crimes for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) programme, finalizing an agreement at a ceremony in Sofia on 15 February...
OSCE Mission helps improve reintegration of repatriated persons in Kosovo
Publishing date: 14 February 2011
Through a series of five regional roundtable meetings, the OSCE Mission in Kosovo is facilitating central-local level dialogue aimed at improving the reintegration of repatriated persons in Kosovo.
OSCE media freedom representative strongly condemns explosion at Bulgarian newspaper offices, urges thorough and swift investigation
Publishing date: 11 February 2011
VIENNA, 11 February 2011– Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today strongly condemned the bomb explosion outside the offices of the Galeria weekly in Sofia...
OSCE Office in Tajikistan calls for attackers of leading politician and journalist to be brought to justice
Publishing date: 11 February 2011
DUSHANBE, 11 February 2011 – The Head of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan, Ambassador Ivar Vikki, today condemned the violent attack on Hikmatullo Saifullozoda, member of the Political Council of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan and editor-in-chief of its newspaper, and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice...