News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Combatting trafficking in human beings focus of OSCE-supported training seminar in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 9 September 2019
An OSCE-supported training seminar on combatting human trafficking concluded on 6 September 2019 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Some 28 representatives of the flag carrier “Air Astana” and the Education Centres of the Committee of Civil Aviation of the Republic of Kazakhstan from the cities of Nur-Sultan, Almaty, Aktau and Shymkent participated in the event.
OSCE Media Freedom Representative welcomes release of Sentsov, Sushchenko and Vyshinsky, thanks both countries for this achievement
Publishing date: 7 September 2019
VIENNA, 7 September 2019 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, welcomed today’s release of Ukrainian film director and writer Oleg Sentsov from Crimea, of the correspondent of the Ukrainian National News Agency, Ukrinform, Roman Sushchenko, and of journalist Kirill Vyshinsky, the chief of the RIA Novosti Ukraina office in Kyiv, as a result of the exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine...
Albania local elections 2019: ODIHR observation mission final report
Publishing date: 6 September 2019
Following Albania’s local elections on 30 June 2019, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has published its final report. While voting was conducted in a generally peaceful and orderly manner, the elections were held with little regard for the interests of the
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan conducts study visit and media tour on sustainable mobility and urban planning to Scandinavian cities
Publishing date: 5 September 2019
A four-day study visit to Copenhagen and Malmo organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan in co-operation with the Nordic Council of Ministers concluded on 5 September. Representatives of the municipality of Tashkent responsible for urban and mobility planning and members of the Cycling Federation of Uzbekistan had a chance to learn best practices of sustainable city mobility planning.
OSCE presents community policing approach in multi-ethnic society in Nur-Sultan
Publishing date: 5 September 2019
On 3 September 2019, some 40 representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakh-stan, police, NGOs and representatives of the diplomatic corps participated in an event on inclusive and effective community policing in multi-ethnic societies. The event took place in the framework of the visit to Kazakhstan of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Mi-norities, Lamberto Zannier.
Albanian trainers trained in countering terrorist financing by OSCE and UN Office on Drugs and Crime
Publishing date: 3 September 2019
A two-day train-the-trainer course on countering terrorist financing for participants from Albania was held on 2 and 3 September 2019 at the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna...
Workshop on combating illicit cross-border trafficking in cultural property in the region of the OSCE Asian partners held in Mongolia
Publishing date: 2 September 2019
A five-day awareness raising workshop on combating illicit cross-border trafficking in cultural property concluded on 30 August 2019 in Ulaanbaatar. More than 40 participants from the OSCE Asian Partners for Co-operation Mongolia, Japan, South Korea and Thailand took part in the event. They represented police, border and customs services, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports as well as other entities such as anti-corruption agencies and academia.