News and press releases

The OSCE Centre in Bishkek supported the “Barrier–2014” simulation exercises in the Ala-Buka district of Jalal-Abad province on 17-18 September 2014, with the aim of testing the readiness of border guards and law enforcement agencies in protecting the country’s borders...

A two-day seminar involving approximately 30 judges, lawyers and journalists on issues related to defamation and libel concluded on 16 September at the premises of the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...

PRISHTINË/PRIŠTINA/VIENNA, 18 September 2014- Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Jean-Claude Schlumberger, and OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović, expressed today their concern over the safety of journalists and condemned the latest in a series of death threats against Artan Haraqija, a journalist with the Indeksonline news portal...

A training session organized by the OSCE Mission on digital photography for 20 newly-appointed and long-serving Kosovo Police officers in the four northern municipalities concluded in Mitrovica/Mitrovicë on 17 September 2014...

MINSK, 15 September 2014 – During a two-day official visit to Minsk OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović strongly encouraged the authorities to continue working to improve the media freedom situation in Belarus...

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan and the non-governmental organization Ecological Movement of Uzbekistan ran a national cycling event on the streets of Tashkent on 14 September 2014, raising awareness of the health and environmental benefits of getting on the bike...

VIENNA, 12 September 2014 – OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today called on the Ukrainian authorities to respect media following a raid by law enforcement officers on the editorial office of the Vesti newspaper in Kyiv...