News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Kazakhstan’s Defence Minister addresses OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation, outlines FSC Chairmanship priorities
Publishing date: 7 September 2011
VIENNA, 7 September 2011 – Modernizing the Vienna Document 1999, addressing issues related to the implementation of OSCE documents on small arms and light weapons, and on conventional ammunition, as well as non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction are among the key priorities of Kazakhstan as the new Chair of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC), said the country’s Defence Minister Adilbek Zhaksybekov today...
OSCE holds workshop on tackling illegal trafficking of environmentally-sensitive commodities
Publishing date: 7 September 2011
ASHGABAT, 7 September, 2011 – Experts and officers from Turkmenistan’s State Customs and Border Services and from the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Turkmenistan are taking part in an OSCE-supported workshop on detecting and preventing illegal transboundary trafficking of waste and other environmentally-sensitive commodities that opened in Ashgabat today...
OSCE Centre supports DNA training for investigators and forensic experts in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 7 September 2011
NARYN, Kyrgyzstan, 7 September 2011- The first in a series of two-day training seminars on DNA expertise for forensic experts and investigators started today in Naryn in the north of Kyrgyzstan...
OSCE holds Kyiv seminar on seizing and recovering illegal proceeds of drugs and crime
Publishing date: 6 September 2011
KYIV, 6 September 2011- The OSCE Strategic Police Matters Unit in co-operation with Ukraine’s State Financial Monitoring Service launched an anti-crime profits-recovery seminar in Kyiv today...
OSCE/ODIHR delegation visits Kazakhstani human rights defender in prison
Publishing date: 5 September 2011
A delegation of senior officials from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) visited prominent human rights defender Yevgeniy Zhovtis on 3 September 2011 in a settlement colony in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan, where he is serving a four-year sentence for vehicular manslaughter...
Press release issued by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
Publishing date: 5 September 2011
VIENNA, 5 September 2011- The following is a press release issued by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly on 5 September. The views expressed in this press release do not necessarily reflect those of the OSCE Chairmanship, nor of all OSCE participating States...
OSCE trains prosecutors on international human rights standards in investigating torture in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 5 September 2011
The protection of the rights of torture victims, application of international human rights standards during the investigation and prosecution of torture crimes, as well as existing national practices and problems in this sphere is the focus of a three-day OSCE-supported training course for prosecutors, deputy prosecutors and assistant prosecutors that started on 5 September in Bishkek...