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New OSCE department for transnational threats established

Publishing date: 12 January 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
What we do: Border management, Countering terrorism, Policing
With the beginning of 2012, a new department has been established that will improve the OSCE’s work on combating transnational threats (TNT), OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier announced on 10 January 2012...

OSCE media representative launches Facebook page

Publishing date: 12 January 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović established a presence of her Office on Facebook...

Irish Deputy Prime Minister presents 2012 OSCE Chairmanship priorities

Publishing date: 12 January 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Permanent Council
VIENNA, 12 January 2012 – Today the Irish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore addressed the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna for the first time in his role as OSCE Chairperson-in-Office. Deputy Prime Minister Gilmore emphasised the need for the OSCE’s co-operative, inclusive approach in tackling modern security challenges...

OSCE Secretary General meets French foreign minister

Publishing date: 11 January 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretary General
OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé in Paris on 11 January 2012...

OSCE media freedom representative protests jailing of journalist in Minsk

Publishing date: 11 January 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 11 January 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, condemned today the sentencing of Ales Barazenka, an independent Belarusian cameraman, to 11 days’ imprisonment for "participating in an unsanctioned event"...

OSCE human rights chief dismayed at continued practice of detention without trial at Guantánamo

Publishing date: 10 January 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
WARSAW, 10 January 2012 – On the eve of tomorrow’s tenth anniversary of the transfer of the first detainees to the United States naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Ambassador Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), expressed dismay today at the continued practice of indefinite detention without charge or trial of terrorism suspects...

Head of OSCE Mission concerned by fatal shooting in Transdniestria security zone

Publishing date: 5 January 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Moldova
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
CHISINAU, 5 January 2012 – The Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, Ambassador Philip Remler, today expressed his concern at the fatal shooting in the Security Zone of the Transdniestrian conflict on 1 January...