News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Trainers in Ukraine prepared by OSCE will teach social service providers to assist trafficking victims
Publishing date: 19 June 2013
KYIV, 19 June 2013- Twenty-four trainers were prepared to upgrade skills and knowledge of social services staff, including state officials and NGO activists, in providing assistance to victims of human trafficking at an event in Kyiv, organised by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) from 17 to 19 June 2013...
OSCE Chairperson meets with OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs
Publishing date: 14 June 2013
KYIV, 14 June 2013 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara received today the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Jacques Faure of France, and Ian Kelly of the United States as well as the Personal Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office on the conflict dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk...
Diplomatic community must take responsibility for prevention of trafficking for domestic servitude, says OSCE Special Representative in Kyiv
Publishing date: 14 June 2013
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, at a workshop in Kyiv held from 12 to 13 June 2013 urged the Organization’s participating States to take concrete steps to prevent the little-known phenomenon of trafficking for domestic servitude in diplomatic households...
OSCE Secretary General, in Kyiv, meets President, Foreign Minister of Ukraine
Publishing date: 11 June 2013
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier visited Kyiv from 10 to 11 June 2013 where he met with President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara...
Participants at high-level OSCE conference in Kyiv call for stronger anti-trafficking action
Publishing date: 10 June 2013
KYIV, 10 June 2013 – Ways to strengthen the OSCE participating States’ response to human trafficking in terms of the prevention of the crime, prosecution of offenders and protection of victims are the focus of a high-level conference that started in Kyiv today...
Ukrainian officials, civil society members to learn at OSCE events about new rules for registration of associations
Publishing date: 10 June 2013
CHERNIVTSI, Ukraine, 10 June 2013- The OSCE Project Co-ordinator and Ukraine’s State Registration Service launched today a series of six regional information seminars to familiarize public servants and third sector activists with new registration procedures for civil society organizations...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine trains judges in legal writing and time management
Publishing date: 10 June 2013
Training seminars for Ukraine’s newly appointed administrative court judges started in Kyiv on 10 June 2013 with the support of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU)...