News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre in Astana helps prevent human trafficking among vulnerable groups in Kazakhstan’s regions
Publishing date: 15 March 2012
KARAGANDA, Kazakhstan, 15 March 2012 – The OSCE Centre in Astana launched a series of regional training seminars today to help staff at orphanages and vocational schools prevent human trafficking...
Developments in Middle East, North Africa reaffirm need for co-operation, reform, Jordanian Foreign Minister tells OSCE States
Publishing date: 15 March 2012
VIENNA, 15 March 2012 – The Foreign Minister of Jordan, Nasser Judeh, highlighted the need to intensify co-operation and reform processes to address security threats in the Middle East in a speech to the OSCE Permanent Council today...
OSCE Special Representative makes recommendations on human trafficking to Canada
Publishing date: 15 March 2012
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings Maria Grazia Giammarinaro addressed the Government of Canada with recommendations aimed at advancing anti-trafficking action on 15 March 2012...
ODIHR offers assistance and expertise at Dushanbe event on electoral law, including voter lists
Publishing date: 14 March 2012
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights provided support and expertise to a roundtable in Dushanbe on 14 March on measures to develop effective links between population and voter registration in Tajikistan, as well as on reforms to the country’s legal electoral framework...
OSCE announces 2012 – 2013 journalism scholarships for students from Transdniestria and Gagauzia
Publishing date: 14 March 2012
The OSCE Mission to Moldova encourages students from Gagauzia and Transdniestria to apply before 6 April 2012 for scholarships to study at the Chişinău School of Advanced Journalism run by the Independent Journalism Centre...
OSCE Secretary General, in Skopje, condemns latest violence and welcomes authorities’ swift response
Publishing date: 13 March 2012
SKOPJE, 13 March 2012 – The OSCE Secretary General, Lamberto Zannier, in Skopje today to meet government officials, condemned the recent series of violent incidents in the country and welcomed the authorities’ response...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan supports regional anti-trafficking efforts
Publishing date: 13 March 2012
Building the capacity of the territorial branches of Uzbekistan’s Inter-agency Anti-trafficking Commission to sustainably and systematically combat human trafficking and to improve co-ordination between the different actors is the focus of a two-day workshop that started at the General Prosecutor’s office in Tashkent on 12 March 2012...