News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre in Kazakhstan supports trade and transport facilitation
Publishing date: 14 September 2012
A two-day high-level meeting on international trade, trade facilitation and aid for trade was held on 13 and 14 September 2012 in Almaty with the OSCE’s participation...
Lawsuit against Hungarian journalist can have chilling effect on Internet freedom, warns OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 12 September 2012
VIENNA, 12 September 2012 – Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today warned that the lawsuit initiated by the official Hungarian News Agency against journalist György Balavany can constrain media pluralism on the Internet...
OSCE supports human rights monitoring in pre-trial detention facilities and penitentiaries in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 12 September 2012
A report on monitoring human rights in remand prisons and penitentiaries under Kyrgyzstan’s state penitentiary service GSIN was presented at a roundtable discussion on 12 September 2012 in Bishkek...
OSCE/ODIHR highlights challenges for abandoned women from migrant households in Tajikistan
Publishing date: 12 September 2012
The challenge of re-integrating wives abandoned by labour migrants into economic and social life in Tajikistan was the focus of a conference held in Dushanbe by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and UN Women on 12 and 13 September 2012...
OSCE/ODIHR presents electoral recommendations in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 11 September 2012
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) began two days of meetings in Astana on 11 September 2012 to present the final report of the Election Observation Mission to the 15 January early parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan...
OSCE Secretary General in Kyiv to discuss Ukraine’s 2013 Chairmanship
Publishing date: 11 September 2012
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier started his official visit to Ukraine on 10 September 2012 with a meeting with Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko to discuss the preparations for the Ukrainian Chairmanship of the OSCE in 2013...
OSCE/ODIHR report finds June elections in France offered voters wide choice, recommends improvements to legal framework
Publishing date: 10 September 2012
France’s parliamentary elections on 10 and 17 June were administered in an efficient and transparent manner and provided voters with a wide choice among diverse political options, concludes the OSCE/ODIHR's final report...