News and press releases

The OSCE Mission to Skopje supported an event on 29 April 2013 to present the 2012 Annual Report of the Anti-Discrimination Commission...

The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, issued on 25 April 2013 a series of policy and legislative recommendations to help ensure that judicial and law enforcement officials do not prosecute trafficking victims for crimes they have been compelled to commit by their exploiters. Among such crimes is the use of false documents or forced labour in a cannabis factory...

A Memorandum of Understanding between the OSCE, the United Nations World Food Programme in Kyrgyzstan, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit and the Special Representative of the Government in the Batken province to implement a project on "addressing conflicts over drinking water in Isfana City" was signed on 26 April 2013...

The OSCE Presence in Albania is supporting the Albanian Central Election Commission (CEC) in holding training for 76 trainers, selected by the CEC, on the recently amended Electoral Code and related sub-legal acts...

A Memorandum of Understanding between the OSCE, the United Nations World Food Programme in Kyrgyzstan, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit and the Special Representative of the Government in the Batken province to implement a project on "addressing conflicts over drinking water in Isfana City" was signed on 26 April 2013...

The OSCE supported a course for 15 Kosovo Police investigators on how to better investigate crimes on Internet is concluding on 26 April 2013 in Prishtinë/Priština...

An OSCE-supported exercise for law-enforcement officers “Batken-Antiterror-2013” took place in Batken, southern Kyrgyzstan, from 24 to 25 April 2013...