News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Media Freedom Representative publishes legal review of French laws against manipulation of information
Publishing date: 11 January 2019
VIENNA, 11 January 2019 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, published today a legal review of two laws on the fight against the manipulation of information, which were adopted on 20 November 2018 by the French parliament. The review was shared with the French authorities in November...
Statement regarding the interview of OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger published in Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on 24 December 2018
Publishing date: 26 December 2018
Following the publication, on 24 December 2018, of the interview conducted by the German newspaper Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung with OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger...
OSCE/ODIHR publishes database of election recommendations for Western Balkans
Publishing date: 21 December 2018
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has published an online database of election-related recommendations for the Western Balkans.
Port control procedures and security issues discussed at OSCE-organized training course in Turkmenbashi International Seaport on Caspian Sea
Publishing date: 21 December 2018
More than 25 seaport security and law enforcement officials completed a five-day practical training course on port security management and procedures on 21 December 2018. The course, held at the Turkmenbashi International Seaport on the Caspian Sea, was organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat...
World Customs Organization accredits Kyrgyzstan’s State Customs Service Training Centre with regional status
Publishing date: 21 December 2018
The Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Kunio Mikuriya, and the First Deputy Chairman of the State Customs Service of the Kyrgyz Republic (SCS), Shamil Berdaliev, signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the WCO Secretariat in Brussels on 19 December, thereby accrediting the SCS’s Training Centre as a WCO Regional Training Centre...
OSCE Mission to Skopje presented first Legal Commentary on the Law on Criminal Procedure
Publishing date: 20 December 2018
The OSCE Mission to Skopje presented today a Legal Commentary on the Law on Criminal Procedure, the first of its kind, prepared by a group of legal experts that will help lawyers, judges and prosecutors apply the Law in a better and more uniform fashion in the courts.
OSCE and UN Office on Drugs and Crime train Albanian officials to disrupt terrorist financing
Publishing date: 20 December 2018
A two-day train-the-trainer course aimed at strengthening the capacity of Albania to disrupt the financing of terrorist networks was held on 18 and 19 December 2018 in Vienna...