News and press releases

The first of five seminars on new registration procedures for civil society organizations started in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on 27 November 2012 with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine...

More needs to be done to improve responses to hate-motivated crimes against people with disabilities, said participants at a joint workshop organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombudsperson in Norway, in Oslo on 26 November 2012...

Fourteen frontline border officers, supervisors and managers, customs officials, inspectors and investigators from Central Asia and Afghanistan learned about issues related to chemical precursors that have a potential to be used by terrorists in the first co-operative effort between the World Customs Organization and the OSCE Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe from 19 to 23 November 2012...

OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Knut Vollebaek visited Moldova from 19 to 21 November 2012, where he presented his recently launched Ljubljana Guidelines on Integration of Diverse Societies and discussed co-operation with the Government to develop a comprehensive integration strategy...

Civil society representatives from Austria, Germany and Switzerland gained insight into effective methods for monitoring and responding to incidents of hate crimes against Muslims, at a workshop organized by ODIHR and the non-governmental organization ReachOut in Berlin on 24 and 25 November 2012...

An OSCE-supported two-day training course on the implementation of the Aarhus Convention that gives the public right of access to environmental information, participation and access to justice in governmental decision-making concluded on 23 November 2012 at the Aarhus Centre in Dushanbe...

Some 300 books were donated by the OSCE Office in Yerevan to the Armenian Police Educational Complex on 23 November 2012 as part of its support for police education reform...