News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre supports discussion on introducing plea bargaining into Kazakhstan’s criminal justice system
Publishing date: 26 March 2012
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 26 March 2012 – An OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on prospects for introducing plea bargaining into Kazakhstan’s planned Criminal Procedure Code was held in Almaty today...
Independent broadcast regulators crucial for enhancing media pluralism, says OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 26 March 2012
ISTANBUL, 26 March 2012- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, underlined the crucial role independent regulatory authorities play in ensuring media pluralism at the opening of a master class on broadcast regulation in Central Asia and the South Caucasus in Istanbul today...
OSCE Mission to Serbia supports Interior Ministry’s efforts to assist crime victims
Publishing date: 26 March 2012
A four-day OSCE-supported workshop for officers from Serbia’s Interior Ministry and the Police Academy took place from 20 to 23 March 2012 in Belgrade...
OSCE Mission helps improve emergency management and disaster response in Serbia
Publishing date: 26 March 2012
A three-day simulation exercise on emergency management for representatives of municipal emergency headquarters from Nova Varos, Prijepolje and Priboj took place from 21 to 23 March 2012 in Zlatibor...
ODIHR trains NGOs in south Kyrgyzstan on trial monitoring
Publishing date: 24 March 2012
The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) shared its trial-monitoring methodology with representatives of non-governmental organizations from the south of Kyrgyzstan, in two days of training organized in co-operation with the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and held in Osh on 23 and 24 March 2012...
Joint statement by the Foreign Ministers of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries
Publishing date: 22 March 2012
MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON/ PARIS, 22 March 2012- The foreign minsters of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov, Secretary of State of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Foreign Minister of France Alain Juppé issued the following statement today...
OSCE/ODIHR opens mission to assess parliamentary elections in Armenia
Publishing date: 21 March 2012
YEREVAN, 22 March 2012 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today opened an election observation mission for the parliamentary elections to be held in Armenia on 6 May...