News and press releases

The OSCE Mission to Skopje presented the final results of its Mayors Perception Survey on the work of the police, conducted in co-operation with the Association of Municipalities (ZELS) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, on 8 December 2011...

The OSCE Office in Tajikistan and the interior ministries of Tajkistan and Croatia supported an initiative to share expertise and experience on police reform and response to domestic violence with community policing experts, civil society organizations and community crisis centres...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 9 December 2011 – State officials from the General Prosecutor’s Office, the Presidential Administration, the Constitutional Council, the Supreme Court and law enforcement agencies met representatives of civil society and academia to discuss a concept paper for Kazakhstan’s new criminal code at an OSCE-supported meeting in Almaty today...

The Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities and the Council of Europe’s Centre of Expertise for Local Government Reform held a two-day regional seminar on promoting local government reform, good economic governance and sound financial management at the local level on 7 and 8 December 2011...

DUSHANBE, 9 December 2011 – The findings of an OSCE-supported study on perceptions and attitudes towards corruption in Tajikistan were presented today in Dushanbe in the first of a series of events for government, civil society and international organizations...

VIENNA, 9 December 2011-- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, urged today Russian authorities to protect journalists reporting from the scene of street protests from detention and police harassment...

ALMATY, 9 December 2011 – Some 70 university students gathered to mark International Human Rights Day at an OSCE Centre-supported annual student event that concluded today in Almaty...