News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Students discuss international human rights protection at OSCE-supported course in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 30 November 2012
ASHGABAT, 30 November 2012 – Forty senior students of the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan attended an OSCE-supported course on the international protection of human rights that concluded in Ashgabat today...
Afghan and Tajik border guards complete patrol management course
Publishing date: 30 November 2012
DUSHANBE, 30 November 2012 – The OSCE Office in Tajikistan completed today a second joint border patrol course for Afghan and Tajik border officers as part of a series of training courses to enhance the capacity of Tajik border troops and Afghan border police to detect and interdict illegal cross-border movement...
OSCE Mission to Skopje supports conference on role of political parties in electoral process
Publishing date: 30 November 2012
SKOPJE, 30 November 2012 – Raising awareness on the role of political parties in the electoral process is the aim of an OSCE-supported conference that started in Skopje today...
OSCE supports international forum in Ukraine on case law of European Court of Human Rights
Publishing date: 30 November 2012
More than one hundred legal practitioners and scholars are taking part in an OSCE-supported international forum on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) that starts in western Ukrainian city of Lviv on 30 November 2012...
OSCE representative concerned over threat to media pluralism in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 30 November 2012
VIENNA, 29 November 2012 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, expressed concern today that legal proceedings initiated against several media outlets in Kazakhstan might severely undermine media pluralism in the country...
Secretary General of Organization of Islamic Co-operation addresses OSCE, stresses need to jointly counter religious intolerance
Publishing date: 30 November 2012
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Co-operation (OIC), addressed the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on 29 November 2012 and stressed the need to jointly address intolerance and discrimination on religious grounds...
OSCE/ODIHR presents electoral recommendations in Spain
Publishing date: 29 November 2012
A team from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) visited Madrid from 26 to 29 November 2012 to present the final report of the Election Assessment Mission for last year’s early parliamentary elections in Spain...