News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE removes latest batch of toxic rocket fuel component from Ukraine
Publishing date: 20 March 2013
A train carrying 376 tonnes of a toxic rocket fuel component, which had been stored in deteriorating containers at a site in Shevchenkove, left Ukraine on 20 March 2013 for safe disposal as part of a project supported by the OSCE...
OSCE media freedom representative concerned over treatment of journalists at Croatian public service broadcaster
Publishing date: 20 March 2013
VIENNA, 20 March 2013- OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today expressed concern over the treatment of three journalists at Croatian Radio Television’s (HRT) news programme...
OSCE/ODIHR workshop in Yerevan focuses on strengthening rights of defendants in criminal cases
Publishing date: 19 March 2013
New rules strengthening the rights of defendants as part of a revision of Armenia’s law on criminal procedure were the focus of a workshop organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on 19 March 2013 in the Armenian capital...
New UK press regulator could pose a threat to freedom of expression, says OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 18 March 2013
VIENNA, 18 March 2013 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern today about an agreement to establish an agency to regulate print media in the UK...
OSCE-Australia conference focuses on security of women and girls
Publishing date: 18 March 2013
An OSCE conference on improving security of women and girls, promoting the economic empowerment of women and combatting all forms of human trafficking started in Adelaide in southern Australia on 18 March 2013...
OSCE Special Representative stresses victims’ rights at Krakow conference on trafficking in human beings
Publishing date: 15 March 2013
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, said at a judicial training seminar in Krakow, Poland on 14 March 2013 that trafficked people’s legal rights must be upheld and given the same importance as punishing perpetrators in court...
OSCE supports discussion on establishing a torture prevention mechanism in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 14 March 2013
The OSCE Centre in Astana jointly with the Committee on Legislation and Judicial Reform of the Mazhilis (the lower Chamber of Parliament) and the Penal Reform International Office in Central Asia organized a roundtable discussion on 14 March 2013 on a draft law to establish a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) against torture in Kazakhstan...