News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports customs integrity development in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 15 April 2013
A three-day workshop on promoting integrity in customs administration supported by the OSCE Centre started in Astana on 15 April 2013...
OSCE Mission to Skopje trains police officers on crowd management
Publishing date: 15 April 2013
The OSCE Mission to Skopje, in co-operation with the Interior Ministry and the French Embassy in Skopje, is training 30 police officers from the Ministry’s Special Units Department on crowd management...
ODIHR trains police trainers on preventing and responding to hate crimes
Publishing date: 12 April 2013
Police trainers from 11 OSCE participating States completed a three-day specialized police training programme on recognizing, understanding and investigating hate crimes, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Association of European Police Colleges (AEPC) from 10 to 12 April 2013...
OSCE promotes safe storage of small arms and light weapons in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 12 April 2013
Ways of securely storing small arms and light weapons (SALW) and conventional ammunition (CA) were presented and discussed from 8 to 11 April 2013 in an OSCE technical seminar in Ashgabat...
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes restored access to fergananews.com in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 12 April 2013
VIENNA, 12 April 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, welcomed today the restored access to news website fergananews.com in Kyrgyzstan...
OSCE/ODIHR promotes strengthening of Armenia’s judiciary
Publishing date: 12 April 2013
Strengthening the independence, accountability and professionalism of judges was the focus of a two-day roundtable organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Council of Europe on 11 and 12 April 2013 in the Armenian capital...
On 14th anniversary of Serbian journalist’s killing, OSCE media freedom representative calls for end to impunity
Publishing date: 11 April 2013
VIENNA, 11 April 2013 – Today, on the 14th anniversary of the murder of prominent Serbian journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović urged Serbian authorities to honour the pledge they made to investigate this and other killings of journalists...