News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE tolerance meeting wraps up with calls for more youth initiatives and diversity education at schools
Publishing date: 24 October 2006
DUBROVNIK, 24 October 2006- The important role of youth education in the fight against xenophobia and intolerance and the increasing interest among OSCE participating States in promoting youth initiatives were the focus of an international meeting...
OSCE, UNODC Vienna workshop focuses on combating illicit drug threat
Publishing date: 24 October 2006
VIENNA, 24 October 2006- Experts from the OSCE and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime will discuss the role of international co-operation in combating illicit drug trafficking at a meeting that began in Vienna today. The event...
OSCE expert meeting: education is key element to promote respect and fight intolerance
Publishing date: 23 October 2006
DUBROVNIK, 23 October 2006- Teacher training, improved curricula and education about the Holocaust are central elements in the fight against racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism, speakers said at an international OSCE meeting in Croatia today...
OSCE organizes media training programme in Brussels
Publishing date: 23 October 2006
BRUSSELS, 23 October 2006- The relationship between journalism and politics, media laws, investigative reporting, and the role of the media in a democratic society will be the focus of an OSCE training course in Brussels this week...
OSCE Centre supports transparency in law-making process of Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 19 October 2006
ASTANA, 19 October 2006- Ways to increase transparency and the role of civil society in the parliamentary decision-making process were discussed at an international conference which opened in Astana today...
OSCE Mission to Skopje concludes project strengthening neighborhood self-government unit
Publishing date: 19 October 2006
SKOPJE, 19 October 2006- Strengthening local authority bodies known as neighborhood self-government units was the purpose of a series of meetings that ended in Skopje today...
OSCE seminar in Moscow focuses on harmonization of customs and border procedures
Publishing date: 18 October 2006
MOSCOW, 18 October 2006- Border, customs, transport and trade officials from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia identified measures that would harmonize customs and border procedures during a two-day OSCE seminar that ended in Moscow today...