News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE plays indispensable role in Kosovo, says UN's Kosovo administrator
Publishing date: 15 November 2007
VIENNA, 15 November 2007- Clarity on Kosovo's future is critical for the communities in Kosovo and to ensuring stability in the region, said Joachim Ruecker, Head of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), addressing the OSCE today...
Best practices in fighting money-laundering, international co-operation focus of OSCE workshop in Belarus
Publishing date: 14 November 2007
MINSK, 14 November 2007- International standards in combating money-laundering and the financing of terrorism, as well as the role of international organizations are being discussed at an OSCE workshop that opened in Minsk today...
OSCE Office in Yerevan and OSCE human rights body trains staff of Armenia's Human Rights Defender
Publishing date: 13 November 2007
YEREVAN, 13 November 2007- An OSCE- supported training course for the office of Armenia's Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) began today in Yerevan...
National commitment supported by international co-operation essential to foster human rights education, say participants in Strasbourg meeting
Publishing date: 7 November 2007
STRASBOURG, 6 November 2007- Committed, vigorous and concerted national action is essential to ensure proper integration and implementation of human rights education in the school system, participants in a meeting in Strasbourg concluded today...
OSCE Centre holds seminars for Kazakh civil servants on Organization's activities
Publishing date: 7 November 2007
ASTANA, 7 November 2007- Promoting awareness of OSCE activities among Kazakh State officials and legislators is the goal of a series of seminars taking place in Astana, Almaty, Shymkent and Semei this week...
OSCE Youth Forum opens in Madrid
Publishing date: 5 November 2007
MADRID, 5 November 2007- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office today opened the first OSCE Youth Forum in Madrid, organized on the initiative of the Spanish Chairmanship and welcomed by all 56 participating States...
OSCE Mission calls for referral mechanism for trafficking victims in Kosovo
Publishing date: 31 October 2007
PRISTINA, 31 October 2007- The number of local victims of human trafficking is growing, and improved mechanisms are needed to help identify and assist these people, said the OSCE Mission in an assessment presented today...