News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Brutal attack against Kazakhstani journalist must be immediately investigated, says OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 20 April 2012
VIENNA, 20 April 2012-- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed her concern over the brutal attack on Lukpan Akhmedyarov, a journalist with Kazakhstan’s Uralskaya Nedelya newspaper, and asked the authorities to promptly investigate the attack...
OSCE meeting focuses on role of sport in combating intolerance
Publishing date: 19 April 2012
VIENNA, 19 April 2011 – Sport can play an important role in combating racism, intolerance and discrimination, but also present challenges in the areas of equality and fairness, participants said today at the opening of a two-day OSCE meeting in Vienna...
OSCE Presence assists Albania in disposing of dangerous chemicals
Publishing date: 19 April 2012
The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth, and Defence Minister Arben Imami signed an agreement on 16 April 2012 for the disposal of more than 80 tonnes of hazardous chemical products...
OSCE Office in Tajikistan supports de-mining efforts
Publishing date: 19 April 2012
DUSHANBE, 19 April 2012- As part of a humanitarian de-mining project supported by the OSCE, a mechanical de-mining machine was handed over to the Tajikistan’s Ministry of Defence today at a ceremony in the Engineering Battalion base in Rudaki District, close to Dushanbe...
OSCE must focus on areas where it can add value, says Russian Foreign Ministry Human Rights Commissioner
Publishing date: 19 April 2012
VIENNA, 19 April 2012 – In its human dimension work, the OSCE must focus on areas where it can bring added value, and pay special attention to protecting rights of national minorities, freedom of movement, combating trafficking and developing single rules of election monitoring, said Ambassador Konstantin Dolgov, the Russian Foreign Ministry Commissioner on Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law in his address to the OSCE Permanent Council today...
OSCE Academy’s Director presents to Permanent Council educational, research programmes for Central Asia and Afghanistan
Publishing date: 19 April 2012
The OSCE Academy in Bishkek has since 2002 worked to promote the OSCE agenda of regional co-operation in Central Asia, said the Academy’s Director, Maxim Ryabkov, in his address to the OSCE Permanent Council on 19 April 2012...
Fight against corruption, good governance focus of high-level OSCE meeting in Dublin on Monday
Publishing date: 19 April 2012
DUBLIN, 19 April 2012 – Good governance and fighting corruption is the theme of a two-day OSCE meeting that opens in Dublin on Monday 23 April 2012...