News and press releases

Election laws and their application in the OSCE participating States demonstrate many positive elements, but there is a number of areas where improvements are needed to meet commitments those countries have undertaken, and international standards, says a review presented at an OSCE event in Vienna on 31 October 2013...

An advanced course on security sector reform, co-organized by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the BiH Joint Staff and the Centre for Security Studies, concluded in Sarajevo on 31 October 2013...

Challenges faced by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and ways to address them through inclusivity, visibility and co-operation were the key topics of a meeting between the OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Ranko Krivokapic today in Vienna...

The OSCE Presence in Albania organized a meeting with female parliamentarians, on 30 October 2013, to support them in re-establishing the women’s caucus in the Albanian Assembly, a structure that has been inactive for the last four years.

A project organised jointly by the OSCE, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the International Organization for Migration, to map the links between irregular migration, migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings along the East Mediterranean Migration Route, began with a seminar in Vienna on 30 and 31 October 2013.

Fifty-eight district election commissioners were trained to administer electoral procedures for the upcoming repeat election in Ukraine at a session organized from 29 to 30 October 2013 in Kyiv by the country’s Central Election Commission (CEC) and the OSCE Project Co-ordinator (PCU).

The OSCE Mission to Skopje in co-operation with the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption and with the EU Delegation is organizing a conference on good practices for political party and campaign financing that started in Skopje on 30 October 2013...