News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Media Freedom Representative raises serious concern about lawsuits and brief detention of journalist in Croatia
Publishing date: 17 September 2019
WARSAW, 17 September 2019 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, expressed his concern over the lawsuits and detention of a journalist in Croatia yesterday morning...
OSCE-supported workshop explored links between research and policy-making in Central Asia
Publishing date: 17 September 2019
Collection and analysis of migration-related data to shape effective policy-making were the focus of a two-day workshop organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA) in co-operation with the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan, with the support of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Employment and Labour Relations Ministry of Uzbekistan, on 16 and 17 September 2019 in Tashkent...
OSCE Mission to Serbia, together with Serbia’s public institutions, launches Professional Practice Programme for youth from southwest Serbia
Publishing date: 17 September 2019
The OSCE Mission to Serbia, in co-operation with Serbia’s institutions, launched the 2019 Professional Practice Programme on 17 September in Belgrade. The Programme enables five young professionals from Novi Pazar and Raška, southwest Serbia, to work with central institutions from September to December 2019. It is the first part of the two-year project Legal Learning Project for Southwest Serbia, funded by the U.S. Mission to the OSCE...
Assessing resolution of election disputes focus of new ODIHR handbook for election observers
Publishing date: 17 September 2019
As part of its efforts to develop and refine its election observation methodology, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) launched a new publication at an event in Warsaw on 17 September 2019, during the annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. The Handbook for
OSCE trains Tajik police and drug control officers on effective project management
Publishing date: 17 September 2019
Representatives of Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry (MIA) and Drug Control Agency (DCA) learned how to successfully manage projects and raise funds to implement reforms in their agencies at a training course in Dushanbe. The course was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe and took place from 26 August to 13 September 2019. It brought together mid- to senior-ranking officers from different departments of the MIA and the DCA...
OSCE supports workshop on open budget data for achieving sustainable development goals
Publishing date: 17 September 2019
An OSCE-supported workshop on open budget data for the Sustainable Development Goals concluded on 13 September 2019 in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.
OSCE Mission to Montenegro organizes training on Media Literacy
Publishing date: 16 September 2019
In order to improve media professionals and students of journalism knowledge of media literacy, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro is organizing a six-day training course from 16 to 21 September 2019, in Podgorica, for 20 participants from the office of the Protector of Human Rights and Freedoms (Ombudsman), the Agency for Electronic Media and journalism students...