News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE/ODIHR opens observation mission for Russian Duma elections
Publishing date: 25 October 2011
MOSCOW, 26 October 2011 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today formally opened its election observation mission to monitor the upcoming 4 December State Duma elections in the Russian Federation...
War Crimes Justice Project delivers practice manual to Serbian defence lawyers
Publishing date: 25 October 2011
BELGRADE, 25 October 2011 – The War Crimes Justice Project, an EU funded project, today presented the Serbian version of the Manual on International Criminal Defence to defence lawyers in Serbia...
OSCE Mission in Kosovo encourages regional co-operation among investigative journalists
Publishing date: 25 October 2011
An OSCE-organized conference on the risks and challenges of accessing information for investigative reporting purposes gathered journalists from Belgrade, Podgorica, Prishtinë/Priština, Sarajevo, Skopje, Tirana, in Prishtinë/Priština on 21 October 2011...
OSCE, UN work together to stop proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
Publishing date: 25 October 2011
The OSCE Secretariat and the United Nations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the joint implementation of projects to stop the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction...
OSCE discusses approaches to prosecuting cybercrime aspects of trafficking in Ukraine
Publishing date: 25 October 2011
KYIV, 25 October 2011 – A roundtable discussion on prosecuting cybercrime in Ukraine took place in Kyiv today...
Parliamentary observers applaud Tunisian elections: vote shows country on its way to guaranteeing freedom, human rights, democracy
Publishing date: 25 October 2011
TUNIS, 24 October 2011 – International election observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly today declared the first democratic elections in Tunisia as “free and fair” and praised the Tunisian people for their participation in the electoral process...
Statement of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs
Publishing date: 24 October 2011
BAKU, 24 October 2011- The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Bernard Fassier of France, Robert Bradtke of the United States, and Igor Popov of the Russian Federation) and Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk (Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office) traveled October 21-24 to Yerevan, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Baku...