News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Increasing female participation in public life focus of OSCE seminar
Publishing date: 13 July 2011
A series of three-day training seminars for female party activists from the Respublika, Ak-Shumkar and Ata-Meken political parties was completed on 13 July by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs...
OSCE Chairperson discusses Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations with Minsk Group Co-chairs
Publishing date: 12 July 2011
VILNIUS, 12 July 2011 – The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis today met the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group: Ambassador Bernard Fassier of France, Robert Bradtke of the United States, and Igor Popov of the Russian Federation accompanied by Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office on the conflict dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference...
OSCE supports summer school for human rights defenders
Publishing date: 12 July 2011
The OSCE Mission to Moldova, in co-operation with the Center for Protection of Human Rights in Transdniestria, a non-governmental organization, held a summer school on practical ways to enhance the protection of human rights, from 8 to 10 July 2011 in Vadul lui Voda...
Strengthening OSCE mediation and dialogue facilitation capacity focus of expert meeting
Publishing date: 12 July 2011
The Lithuanian OSCE Chairmanship, with the support of the Swiss Delegation to the OSCE and the Conflict Prevention Centre, is hosting an expert meeting on 12 July 2011 in Vienna on strengthening the mediation-support capacity of the Organization...
OSCE hosts workshop for Central Asian legal experts on international co-operation to combat crime
Publishing date: 11 July 2011
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 11 July 2011 – The fourth annual workshop on international co-operation in criminal matters for legal experts in Central Asia, co-hosted by the OSCE in co-operation with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), began in Almaty today...
OSCE Secretary General emphasizes need to secure ammunitions and weapons stocks following Cyprus explosion
Publishing date: 11 July 2011
VIENNA, 11 July 2011 – The deadly explosion of munitions at a military base in Cyprus underlines that work to secure ammunition and weapons stocks is of utmost urgency, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier said today...
OSCE welcomes Montenegro’s decriminalization of speech offences
Publishing date: 11 July 2011
PODGORICA/VIENNA, 11 July 2011 – The OSCE Mission to Montenegro and the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, today commended Montenegro for decriminalizing defamation...