News and press releases

Ethno-Jazz Festival is one of the largest annual cultural events in Moldova. In 2013, the geographic scope of the Festival was expanded to cover for the first time Tiraspol and Comrat where OSCE –supported jazz workshops and concerts took place on 27 and 28 September...

Improving the control of explosive substances to hinder access to them by terrorists was the topic of a roundtable discussion organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan on 1 October 2013...

The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, and a group of legal experts underscored the importance of protecting trafficking victims’ rights during a side event at the OSCE’s annual Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 30 September 2013...

From 18 to 20 September 2013, more than 180 journalists, representatives of civil society, government and academics, along with international experts, gathered in Tirana, Albania, to take part in the 3rd South East Europe Media Conference...

The OSCE Mission to Skopje today concluded a workshop for 15 public relations officers at the Interior Ministry that took place from 28 to 30 September 2013. The aim of the event was to help the police to more effectively provide information to the public in times of crisis...

OSCE Office in Yerevan in co-operation with the non-governmental organization Helsinki Committee of Armenia organized a workshop on principles of reporting about penal system, for journalists from 28 to 29 September 2013 in Tsaghkadzor...

A new handbook on observing the use of new technologies in elections, including electronic voting and automated counting, was launched by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw on 1 October 2013...