News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Tajik customs officials learn from Finnish experience in OSCE-organized study visit
Publishing date: 31 May 2013
A five-day study visit to Finland for senior customs and trade officials from Tajikistan ended in Helsinki on 31 May 2013...
Organizational skills of Armenian national minorities enhanced with OSCE involvement
Publishing date: 30 May 2013
A five-day training course on organizational development for national minorities in Armenia kicked off in Yerevan on 31 May 2013. The class, which receives support from the OSCE Office in Yerevan, targets heads and representatives of youth branches of national minority NGOs...
Italian Police and ODIHR sign agreement on hate crime training for police
Publishing date: 29 May 2013
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Italian authorities signed an agreement on 29 May 2013 for training of Italian law enforcement officers in recognizing, understanding and investigating hate crimes...
On anniversary of Montenegrin journalist's killing, OSCE media freedom representative calls for end of impunity for attackers
Publishing date: 28 May 2013
On 28 May 2013, the ninth anniversary of the murder of Montenegrin journalist Duško Jovanović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, urged the authorities to end the impunity against journalists’ attackers...
OSCE Office helps integrate human rights education into Tajikistan’s schools
Publishing date: 28 May 2013
A three-day training course on human rights education for 20 teacher trainers from Dushanbe, Sughd, Khatlon, and Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Provinces, organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan in co-operation with the Teachers’ Training Institute of the Ministry of Education, concluded on 25 May 2013 in Dushanbe...
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities: State must take responsibility for facilitating integration
Publishing date: 28 May 2013
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) Knut Vollebaek has stressed the need for governments to promote integration of society during the last official visit of his mandate to Skopje from 22 to 24 May 2013...
Stop radicalization and violent extremism to prevent terrorism, OSCE Secretary General says at security conference
Publishing date: 28 May 2013
Recent terrorist attacks in the OSCE region show that terrorism and conditions that contribute to the spread of terrorism are likely to remain a key challenge for participating States, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier said at an international security conference in Budapest on 29 May 2013...