News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mission in Kosovo helps improve quality of students’ services
Publishing date: 20 May 2011
In an effort to improve access to students’ services for non-Albanian communities, the OSCE Mission in Kosovo supported an internship, from 2 to 13 May, at Dublin City University, Ireland, for the Co-ordinator of the Student and Youth Support Centre of the University in Mitrovica/Mitrovicë- Gračanica/Graçanicë Campus...
OSCE Centre trains officials working with young offenders in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 20 May 2011
TALAS, Kyrgyzstan, 20 May 2011– A training seminar initiated by the Education and Interior Ministries with the support of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek will start tomorrow in the city of Talas in northern Kyrgyzstan...
OSCE chairs ENVSEC Management Board Meeting
Publishing date: 19 May 2011
High-level representatives of the Environment and Security (ENVSEC) Initiative Partners met in Vienna on 18 May 2011 for the first Management Board meeting since the OSCE assumed its 2011 chairmanship in the six-agency partnership...
ODIHR publishes final report on parliamentary elections in Estonia
Publishing date: 19 May 2011
According to the final assessment report published by ODIHR on 16 May, Estonia’s 6 March parliamentary elections were “conducted in an environment characterized by respect for fundamental rights and freedoms and a high degree of trust in the impartiality of the election administration...
OSCE workshop on Kazakhstan’s draft migration law
Publishing date: 19 May 2011
ASTANA, 19 May 2011 – Representatives of the government, parliament, civil society and the international organizations in Kazakstan discussed the new draft migration law at an OSCE workshop in Astana today...
OSCE Mission helps promote regularization strategy for informal settlements
Publishing date: 19 May 2011
The OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning (MESP) and UN-Habitat will conclude a series of five regional roundtables on a Strategy and Action Plan for the Prevention and Regularization of Informal Settlements 2011- 2015, on 20 May 2011, in Prishtinë/Priština...
OSCE media freedom representative praises Kyrgyzstan’s media freedom progress, urges authorities to ensure safety of journalists
Publishing date: 19 May 2011
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 19 May 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, praised Kyrgyzstan’s President Roza Otunbayeva for her efforts to advance media reforms and urged the authorities to do their utmost to ensure the safety of journalists, at the end of a three-day visit to Kyrgyzstan today...