Skip navigation

0Meta Navigation

× Close search

Navigation

Home Newsroom Press releases
Newsroom

News and press releases

Subscribe to News Updates

News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.

OSCE media freedom representative and ODIHR Director congratulate Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet on receiving “Alternative Nobel Prize”

Publishing date: 22 September 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development
WARSAW, 22 September 2016 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, and the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Michael Georg Link, today congratulated the daily Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet on receiving the Right Livelihood Award, more commonly known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”...

Use of digital tools by human traffickers in focus of OSCE-supported meeting for law enforcers in Ukraine

Publishing date: 22 September 2016
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
Some 50 police officers, investigators, prosecutors and judges from six regions of Ukraine participated in a two-day roundtable discussion on the investigation and prosecution of human trafficking crimes committed with the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine on 21-22 September 2016 in Kharkiv...

Youth from Albania and Serbia conclude OSCE-supported training course in Durrës on use of digital skills to promote OSCE values

Publishing date: 22 September 2016
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania, OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Democratization, Youth
A five-day training course on use of digital skills to promote OSCE values for young people from Albania and Serbia concluded on 22 September 2016 in the Albanian city of Durrës. The course was organized by the OSCE Mission to Serbia in partnership with the OSCE Presence in Albania, in co-operation with the Serbia’s Ministry of Youth and Sport, Albanian Ministry of Social Welfare and Youth and the National Youth Council of Serbia...

Internet journalism in focus of OSCE courses at Turkmenistan universities

Publishing date: 22 September 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Education, Media freedom and development
ASHGABAT, 22 September 2016 –An OSCE-supported practical course on Internet journalism for some 40 journalism students at the International University for Humanities and Development concluded today in Ashgabat...

OSCE-Amnesty International side event participants call on participating States to uphold international human rights standards, OSCE commitments in policing assemblies

Publishing date: 21 September 2016
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Policing
The attitude and behavior of the police before and during assemblies greatly influence the course these events take, said participants in a side event focusing on challenges and good practices in the area of human-rights complaint assembly policing held during the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, on 21 September 2016...

OSCE participating States need to increase efforts to promote political and social participation of persons with disabilities

Publishing date: 20 September 2016
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights
The challenges in promoting and securing the rights of persons with disabilities, ensuring their inclusion in the political and public life and in decision-making processes, as well as in promoting their unhindered participation in sport events, were discussed at a side event that took place on 20 September 2016 during the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw...

Importance of follow-up on electoral recommendations highlighted at OSCE/ODIHR event

Publishing date: 20 September 2016
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
The need to strengthen efforts to follow up on electoral assessments and recommendations was the focus of a side-event organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) during the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 20 September 2016.